IS STRIKING THE WAY TO GO?

Truck drivers’ strike continues!!!

 

Parked trucks
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Striking now feels like normality in South Africa, to me as well. I tune on the news they are talking about a new strike. I get that they want wage increase, fair packages but what happened to unions communicating with the management for better deals? After the horrible strike of Marikana you would think that people have learned but no another strike bursts.

  

"Even if we fail to convince the employer on Wednesday, we will continue with our protest until the employer meets our demands," Vavi said, Reported on Times Live (02 October 2012).  The truck drivers are demanding a wage increase by 12, 5% but they have so far talked about them getting only 8.5 this year and 0.5 % next year.

This is affecting South African economy in such a way that because the company truck drivers are not working and this brings delay of transporting goods. Any truck seen on the road will be burned and the driver will face serious consequences, and this is making the fathers, brothers and bread winners very nervous.

Stop truck striking campaign

As Public Relations, in dealing with this matter it will be very good to sit down the unions and management sort this dispute out as soon as possible because people's lives are in danger. Making sure that the image of the truck owning companies does not get bad publicity as well.

The question remains: IS STRIKING THE WAY TO GO?

For more information on the strike please click the link below:

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/10/02/truck-driver-strike-will-continue

WAR IS YET TO DISPUTE

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Jacob Zuma the president of south africa.

The battle of the ANC nominations of the new members of the parliament is yet to come at the conference that is going to be held in Mangaung. The conference will be held during the month of December (Reported news24, 26 September 2012).

“Infuse a young leadership into ANC…we need to be led by our own” said Mr Lamola the deputy president of ANCYL.  First of all he is sending out the message that the current President is not one of their own and that statement is being questioned what he meant about that.  

The students of wits made it clear that they are fully supporting the following members of the parliament to be the next effective members:

·         Kgalema  Motlanthe (deputy president)

·         Julius Malema(Expelled ANCYL president)

·         Fikile Mbalula (minister of sport)

The wits students want Mr Motlanthe to be president, Malema to go back to his old position and Mbalula to be their general secretary. These nominations will bring the party to fight against each other. What is going to happen at Mangaung is exactly what happened to the former President Mr Thabo Mbeki.

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Expelled ANC Youth League Julius Malema

As a public relations practitioner I say that before heading to the conference in December, the parliament members who had the deciding vote talk and make it clear that whoever votes makes sure they choose the best candidate for the job not as a friend. In the conference there will be press that I will organise as well.

RISE KHOSI RISE

what a great and strong come back for Amakhosi. 



Kizer Chiefs logo

The old time and well known football club Kaizer Chiefs also known as Amakhosi which has been in the Motaung family for years now. From Kaizer Motaung who is now CEO and chairman of the club to his son Bobby Motaung. Kaizer Chiefs now is at the top of the charts again. Every child in the streets is bragging to be the next Siphiwe Tshabalala someday.

Amakhosi played on Saturday (15 September 2012) and they were leading with 2-0 already and it was still the first half of the game. The people who saw the game were amazed because abafana bokuthula noxolo had so much energy and hungry for a win but unfortunate the game had to be postponed for Wednesday 19 September 2012 due to weather conditions.

The team played well as a whole but people who made it all possible for a win are:

·         Bernard Parker (midfielder)

·         Siphiwe Tshabalala (striker and 2010 world cup goal scorer)



Siphiwe Tshabalala (middle)



Before it was even half time they were leading by a goal and FNB stadium was packed with most Chief’s supporters. When they returned for the second half, Siphiwe Tshabalala the Amakhosi striker helped Kaizer Chiefs to a 2-1 victory over Black Leopards in a replay of Saturday’s premiership fixture at the FNB stadium (Reported on sport24.com).

It was reported that also the leopards had their fair chance of scoring but it did not happen. Leopards came out of the interval firing, with skipper Nkosiyabo Xakane slamming his shot into Khune's side-netting, coming close, seconds after the break. That was a very close attack.

It clearly shows that Amakhosi’s Practitioner has been working overtime because since they came back there has been a change in them. They have changed their attitude, strategies and most importantly dropped the perception of that they are a big and famous team and played whole heartedly.

For more reading on sport please go to:

http://www.sport24.co.za/Soccer/PSL/Chiefs-surge-to-top-spot-20120919

 

MALEMA SIT DOWN PLEASE!!

Follow up on Lonmin workers strike

Expelled ANCYL President Julius Malema
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Expelled ANCYL President Julius Malema is misleading the mine workers by telling them to strike until their demands are met. Malema summoned the mine workers to a meeting on Tuesday (11 September 2012) to tell them they need to strike Five (5) days a month until they get what they want (Reported on news24 12 September 2012). For the past years, Malema has been a strong persuader because he knows what the people want and need and that is when he gets in, manipulates the situation.

 

A cartoon by Zapiro showing members of the ANC
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"There must be a national strike at all the mines until (National Union of Mineworkers' secretary general) Frans Baleni and the union's leadership step down with immediate effect" said Malema.

Malema is using desperate people and their situations as a platform to fight their battles with ANC. He is playing hero so that he acn hurt the people who expelled him even though he was wrong.

Our organisation does not condone violence and the fact that workers are not happy is a priority. A campaign will be launched to look into the needs of the miners and the involvement of Malema into the situation.  

What example is he setting? He says he will fight until bitter end to go back to ANC because it is all he knows but are these majors he is taking to do so? The question still remains.

for more information please follow the link below:

http://www.fin24.com/Companies/Mining/Malema-Strike-five-days-a-month-20120912 

WHO IS TO BLAME?

Lonmin strike leaves the nation mourning.



Police at lonmin mine
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The story has been to every broadcasting station (television and radio) and print media (newspapers and magazines) since last week. The Lonmin mining workers have been on strike since last week and it has turned from being a strike to an event of horror. Police opened fire to a group of striking workers on Thursday (16 august, 2012) killing 34 workers and 74 were injured (Reported on News24).



Parents of the victims at the memorial service
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The total amount of the people who passed on resulted to 44 and 260 people was arrested. Amongst the people that died were 2 police officers and 2 security guards. At a later stage, it was reported that the wives of the striking workers also joined the strike saying that they will support their men . The miners only wanted a wage increase and they took it to the streets. Today there was a memorial service  of the fellow workers who lost their lives. Amongst those who attended were :

• ANCYL spokesperson Floyd Shivambu
• Police Minister Richard Baloyi
• Rustenburg Mayor Mpho Khonou
• Suspended ANCYL President Mr. Julius Malema



Anti-violence campaign
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There is a video that was linked it shows that the protesters fired first. The reports state that they were carrying dokipiri, spears, knives and guns. At this point lives are lost and we will not point any fingers. There is a campaign to stop violence towards each other. Let us stop killing each other and violence does not solve anything it only makes matters worse.

Is that we are teaching our children as a nation that if we do not get what we want we hurt each other?

For more information please click the link below:

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Malema-union-attending-miners-memorial-20120823



JUSTICE IS SERVED ATLAST.

If this is what justice in South Africa looks like, then I am in love with it!!!



Thabo Bester
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Thabo Bester also known as the "Facebook rapist" was sentenced to life in prison on Monday, 12 August 2012 at the Western Cape High Court (Reported on IOL news). The charges that took the final straw on him were those of luring and murdering Nomfundo Tyhulu September last year. Bester and Nomfundo met in Sandton last year where she worked as a car dealer. Bester was there at the dealership and he purchased a BMW car.

He is now called a Facebook rapist as he used the site to his advantage to lure young girls who are looking for jobs. This has become a common thing for criminals to use social networks as a tool for them to assault and kill girls. He also used this site to take advantage of needy girls to assault and rape them.

Bester has been charged with other criminal offences before such as:

· 50 years in prison for raping and robbing two models

· 15 years for each count of rape

· 15 years for on each count of robbery

· 5 years of each robbery sentence was dropped



Stop Abuse Campaign
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A Public Relations campaign will be done to send out a message to other rapists who are doing the same thing. Justice is there and coming to get all of them as it has done to Thabo Bester. Let us fight against women and children abuse. HAPPY WOMEN'S MONTH.

CASTER SEMENYA HAS DONE IT AGIAN!

We accept the silver



Silver winner Caster Semenya
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Caster Semenya has experienced difficulties for the past three years concerning her gender. At the age of 18, when she won the world title in a stunningly fast 1 minute, 55.45 seconds. Today that is history she is an Olympic medallist too. She was forced to undergo tests because they believed that no woman can run as she did. She won a silver medal on Saturday 11 August 2012 in the 800m at the London Games (reported the star sport).

 As she went to accept the medal she did not show any resentment and she was quick to congratulate the winner, Mariya Savinova. Mariya Savinova, three years ago was scrutinized for issues other than her athletic performance before being cleared to compete.

Semenya gained attention in 2009 before the World Championships in Berlin, not for her athletic prowess, but because some questioned the then18 year Old’s gender. Her masculine appearance had raised concerns and complaints to the International Association of Athletics Federations, the governing body for all international athletic competitions outside the Olympics. “Unfortunately it was too late. I’m happy with the silver but I know the coach is not really happy,” Semenya said. “I tried hard to get back but the body wasn’t really on fire today. But I had to fight.”

Below are the top 25 medal standings by the Canadian Press, 2012:

1

USAUnited States

46

29

29

104

2	CHNChina	38	27	22	87
3	GBRGreat Britain	29	17	19	65
4	RUSRussia	24	25	33	82
5	KORSouth Korea	13	8	7	28

24

RSASouth Africa

3

2

1

6

The event was a big success as the team SA is coming back home on the 14th of this month. Everything went according to plan and big up to the organisers and the teams.

For more information please kindly click the link below:
http://www.thestar.com/sports/london2012/athletics/article/1240856--london-2012-caster-semenya-wins-silver-medal-in-olympic-800-metres



Caster Semenya
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Gold Winner Mariya Savinova
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