26 June 2025 SAMWU CONDEMNS RAND WATER’S DESPICABLE BETRAYAL OF WORKERS The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) expresses its profound disgust and outright condemnation of Rand Water’s audacious decision to renege on the recently concluded salary and wage collective agreement. Just yesterday, June 25, 2025, after extensive negotiations within the Amanzi Bargaining Council, a […]
June 2025
SAMWU Strongly Condemns uMhlathuze Municipality’s Misleading Statements and Failure to Account for Service Delivery Collapse
23 June 2025 SAMWU Strongly Condemns uMhlathuze Municipality’s Misleading Statements and Failure to Account for Service Delivery Collapse The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) notes with grave concern the ongoing and misleading statements by the uMhlathuze Local Municipality, which aim to conceal the municipality’s failures in delivering services to communities. The municipality’s deliberate and […]
SAMWU Condemns Endumeni Municipality’s Collapse and Calls for Immediate Accountability
23 June 2025 SAMWU Condemns Endumeni Municipality’s Collapse and Calls for Immediate Accountability The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) expresses its profound dismay at the alarming situation in Endumeni Municipality, where we believe its catastrophic collapse is being actively facilitated by both the MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) and the Office […]
SAMWU ANNOUNCES PROTECTED STRIKE ACTION AT UMHLATHUZE LOCAL MUNICIPALITY
17 June 2025 SAMWU ANNOUNCES PROTECTED STRIKE ACTION AT UMHLATHUZE LOCAL MUNICIPALITY The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU), on behalf of its members and employees at Umhlathuze Local Municipality, today announced the commencement of protected strike action. This decision follows the Municipality’s continued failure to address critical concerns which the Union has been raising […]
SAMWU Cautiously Welcomes Court-Ordered Provincial Intervention at Matjhabeng Local Municipality
2 June 2025 SAMWU Cautiously Welcomes Court-Ordered Provincial Intervention at Matjhabeng Local Municipality The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) notes and cautiously welcomes the long-overdue decision by the Free State provincial government to place the Matjhabeng Local Municipality under administration in terms of Section 139(5) of the Constitution – an intervention that comes only […]
SAMWU CONDEMNS NON-PAYMENT OF OVERTIME AT UMHLATHUZE
1 June 2025 SAMWU CONDEMNS NON-PAYMENT OF OVERTIME AT UMHLATHUZE The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) in the Shonamalanga Region expresses its profound dismay and unequivocally condemns the uMhlathuze Municipality for its persistent and deliberate failure to meet its most basic legal obligation: paying workers for overtime.Once again, the Municipality has defaulted on this […]