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South Africa: Strike Threatens Lives of Aids Patients
Health-e, 27 August 2010
People taking life-long antiretroviral therapy have been left stranded and are being forced to skip crucial treatment as the public sector strike continues. Read more »
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South Africa: Army Steps in to the Breech
UNIRIN, 26 August 2010
The army has deployed more 1,800 medical staff to 47 public hospitals throughout South Africa to substitute for striking doctors and nurses as the nine-day industrial action… Read more »
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South Africa: Civil Servants March On Ninth Day of Strike
RFI, 26 August 2010
Thousands of public servants marched through South Africa's cities and towns to press for higher wages on the ninth day of a crippling strike. Read more »
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South Africa: Govt Threatens Action Against Health, Security Strikers
Business Day, 23 August 2010
THE government said yesterday it would take action against workers in essential services who continued to strike in defiance of a high court interdict ordering health, prison,… Read more »
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South Africa: Police Fire Rubber Bullets at Strikers
RFI, 19 August 2010
Johannesburg police fired water cannons and rubber bullets at striking workers at a hospital on Thursday, on the second day of an open-ended public sector strike. About 1.3 million… Read more »
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South Africa: State Refuses to Budge on Wage Offer
Business Day, 19 August 2010
PUBLIC Service and Administration Minister Richard Baloyi was emphatic yesterday that the government would not budge from its final offer of a 7% wage increase and a R700-a-month… Read more »
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South Africa: Strike Turns Nasty as Protestors Surround Hospitals
Business Day, 19 August 2010
After a day that saw Natalspruit Hospital virtually shut down by strikers, Thursday's action has already effectively shut a number of medical facilities while armed strikers chased… Read more »