Durban – Due to increased patrols and police visibility along the busy N3 trade route between Durban and Joburg, attacks on truck drivers have shifted to the N2. A truck driver was fatally shot and his truck was set alight on the N2 between Murchison and Paddock, on the KZN south coast on Monday. Zimbabwean…
Employees of North West Transport Investment (NTI), a provincial government owned transport service, marched to the Department of Transport in central Pretoria on Monday morning. The employees are members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU). They are demanding that Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula abandon his plans to get rid of…
Members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union known as SATAWU at North West Transport Investment, the NTI, are marching to the Department of Transport in Pretoria this morning to demonstrate over what they call “their displeasure” at statements allegedly made by Minister Fikile Mbalula. The NTI bus service is contesting the transport…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) members at North West Transport Investment (NTI) will march on the Department of Transport on Monday to demonstrate their displeasure at statements made by Minister Fikile Mbalula. Last month Minister Mbalula met with community members to hear their complaints about NTI’s bus service in Hammanskraal, Mabopane and…
SA’s controversial Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Bill and its stinging demerit system – signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa this week – is the beginning of stringent road laws. “This is definitely the way to go and is not the end,” transport minister Fikile Mbalula told the Sunday Times yesterday. He…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) welcomes Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula’s maiden budget vote speech as presented in Parliament on Tuesday. The minister spoke extensively about his plans to address the challenges at Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) including the appointment of a permanent board of control comprised of capable, educated,…
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) has identified three key priorities for Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula to fix the country’s ailing transport system. Mabalula experienced the challenges commuters face on a daily basis in Cape Town on Tuesday. He was meant to travel by train to Langa, but due to a passenger-related incident at Nyanga Station he was…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) calls on government to arrest the ongoing chaos in the trucking industry and put an end to the unnecessary loss of life. Dozens of trucks have been attacked and torched mostly on the N3 in KwaZulu-Natal in the last year. Some industry players estimate the number of…
Newzroom Afrika’s Karinda Jagmohan spoke to SATAWU KZN Acting Provincial Secretary, Thulani Dlamini, about Transnet National Ports Authority’s interdict to halt the strike that would have seen the country’s ports shutdown.
Members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) are planning a total shutdown of the country’s ports on Thursday. The strike is over salary discrepancies between black and white port workers. Negotiations between the union and Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) broke down last week. “We’ve been negotiating with them for quite…
