The shocking latest municipal audit results, showing an overall regression in auditing outcomes for the 2018/2019 financial year, bear witness to the urgent need for a clean-up on local government level.

UASA would like to congratulate Ms. Abigail Moyo on obtaining a BTech Degree in Journalism from Tshwane University of Technology (TUT).

MEMORANDUM

Fuel prices are expected to rise to almost pre-lockdown levels tomorrow, with the petrol price forecasted to increase with R1.73 per litre, diesel with 1.74 cents per litre and paraffin with R2.14 per litre.

It is deeply concerning that South Africa’s jobs emergency remains the country’s biggest challenge despite various interventions.

South Africa’s unemployment rate for the first quarter of 2020 now stands on 30.1%, up from 27.6% a year ago, according to Stats SA’s announcement today, while the expanded unemployment number is a whopping 39.7%.

Striking taxi associations are holding the country to ransom in a time where we should all be working towards economic recovery.  

MEMORANDUM

UASA has written to the CEO of Denel seeking clarity on the issue of salaries on behalf of UASA members employed by the state-owned enterprise.

UASA is pleased with the announcement that hairdressers, beauticians, and other operators in the personal care sector will be allowed to operate under the advanced level 3 lockdown regulations. 

As we celebrate Youth Day 2020, themed ‘Youth Power: Growing South Africa together in the Period of COVID-19’, UASA encourages all youths to unite on this 44th commemoration of 16 June 1976 in combating the threat of the Coronavirus.

UASA again calls on government to reconsider its position before they render thousands of hairdressers, beauticians, nail technicians, other operators in the industry and business owners permanently unemployed and without income.

On the 27th of March 2020, the country went into a national lockdown. This brought about an unprecedented situation where, most businesses, including establishments in the Hairdressing, Cosmetology, Beauty and Skincare Industry were forced to close their...

UASA is reassured that our courts remain independent and robust as confirmed yesterday by the ruling that the lockdown regulations of level 3 and 4 are irrational and unconstitutional.

As coronavirus lockdowns are eased and people return to work worldwide, fuel prices are slowly creeping up to before-lockdown levels as oil prices return to normal. South Africa is no exception with demand for fuel rising due to the advent of...