27 JANUARY 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SAMWU CALLS FOR ADMINISTRATION OF IMPENDLE LOCAL MUNICIPALITY South African Municipal Workers’ Union in KwaZulu-Natal is calling the MEC for Corporative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), Mr Thulasizwe Buthelezi to revoke Section 139(1)(a)(b)(c) to put the Impendle Local Municipality under administration. The municipality is yet to pay workers January […]
January 2026
SUBJECT: LABOUR COURT VINDICATES SAMWU AGAINST UMHLATHUZE MUNICIPALITY’S UNLAWFUL SALARY DEDUCTIONS
Date: 8 January 2026 SUBJECT: LABOUR COURT VINDICATES SAMWU AGAINST UMHLATHUZE MUNICIPALITY’S UNLAWFUL SALARY DEDUCTIONS The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) welcomes yet another decisive victory and vindication in the Labour Court against the uMhlathuze Local Municipality. This victory reaffirms the fundamental rights of workers and underscores that no employer is above the law. […]
SAMWU 2025 YEAR-END MESSAGE
31 December 2025 SAMWU 2025 YEAR-END MESSAGE Revolutionary greetings to all SAMWU members, union staff, water sector employees and municipal workers. Firstly, as SAMWU National Office Bearers, we want to take this opportunity to lower our banner in honour of the all union leaders and members that we have lost during the year under review. […]
A Dark Christmas for uMhlathuze Workers: SAMWU Demands an End to Unlawful Deductions and Inhumane Working Conditions
25 December 2025 A Dark Christmas for uMhlathuze Workers: SAMWU Demands an End to Unlawful Deductions and Inhumane Working Conditions The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) in the Shonamalanga Region strongly condemns the escalating financial abuse and systemic exploitation of employees at the uMhlathuze Municipality. In November 2025, management unilaterally deducted employee salaries without […]
SAMWU Condemns National Treasury Decision to Withold Municipal Equitable Share
17 December 2025 SAMWU Condemns National Treasury Decision to Withold Municipal Equitable Share The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) expresses its outrage and total rejection of the National Treasury’s reckless decision to freeze the December equitable share allocations for 75 municipalities across the country. This move is nothing short of an act of economic […]
SAMWU STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH AUTONOMOUS UNION OF WATER WORKERS OF SENEGAL AND ITS LEADERSHIP
10 December 2025 SAMWU STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH AUTONOMOUS UNION OF WATER WORKERS OF SENEGAL AND ITS LEADERSHIP The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU), which organises workers in municipalities and waterboards across South Africa, stands in solidarity with our comrades in the Senegalese water sector, particularly Comrade Oumar Ba, General Secretary of the Autonomous […]