NUMSA fights plant closures of South Africa’s largest steel manufacturer
Apart from the 3,500 jobs at immediate risk, the closure of the Long Steel plants will endanger about a hundred thousand jobs in the value chain.
Nigerian communities take Shell to court over decades of oil pollution
At least 1.5 million tons of crude oil has been split in the Niger Delta since 1958, according to the UN’s Environment Program (UNEP).
Sudan’s war escalates: displacement, famine, and human catastrophe in Darfur
Another attack on Sudan’s largest IDP camp, already at the center of the world’s largest displacement crisis, added to the death toll—on top of the 13 children dying of hunger each day for over six months
Cameroon’s striking workers win against French sugar giant despite “bloody repression”
Longstanding labor unrest over low wages, union suppression, and unsafe work conditions at Cameroon’s largest sugar company, owned by a French agro-giant, erupted into a strike on January 26 over delayed payments.
The people of Benin intensify anti-French protests in the wake of a terror attack
“What is evident is that Benin is now at war—a war waged by French imperialism through proxy jihadist forces,” argues Damien Zinsou Degbe of Benin’s Council of Patriotic Youth, which has organized several protests demanding the expulsion of French troops.
Neoliberalism responsible for devastating Johannesburg fires, says union
The devastating fires in the slums of South Africa’s Johannesburg expose the deeper crisis of housing triggered by neoliberal policies.
South African workers continue strike against retrenchments at Bidvest SACD’s Durban plant
Workers have been on strike for over 20 days in response to attempts by the company to retrench permanent employees and replace them with outsourced ones, NUMSA’s spokesperson Phakimile Hlubi Majola told Peoples Dispatch.
Water-supply workers win wage-hike struggle in South Africa’s Mbombela city
A last minute agreement between Silulumanzi and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has averted a strike scheduled for January 23.