Sakeliga demand immediate withdrawal of draft regulations on employment equity
Lawyers for Sakeliga have today written to Minister Thulas Nxesi warning him that his regulations on sectoral targets in the workplace and the accompanying process for public participation are incoherent and incomprehensible and should be withdrawn. If he does not withdraw it, the regulations, if promulgated, will be susceptible to judicial review. The draft regulations, […]
Sakeliga case against Auditor-General heard
Sakeliga’s court case against the Auditor-General of South Africa (AG) to make public for the first time the state auditor’s undisclosed management reports of 154 problem municipalities was heard last week. Arguments mainly revolved around the question of whether the OG has a Constitutional duty to make the management reports of municipalities public. The management […]
Sakeliga takes action against state delays in court cases over municipal failure
State respondents are unconscionably delaying critical litigation over municipal decay in the North West province. Delay on the part of the state and an apparent lack of prioritization of matters of constitutional importance in the High Court in Mahikeng exposes communities and business people to escalating state failure. This is the state of affairs after the […]
TLU SA YOUNG FARMER COMMITTEE PRESENTS: GOLF DAY
10 Februarie 2023
TLU SA Young Farmers Committee thought it good to host a golf day at Silver Lakes Golf Course in aid of TLU SA’s Trauma Fund, which is used to help alleviate the above-mentioned problems. This event promises to be one of the highlights on your calendar.
Sakeliga and partners initiate legal proceedings against National Government over failing Eastern Cape municipality
Sakeliga and our local partners have initiated legal proceedings against National Government over the rolling state failure that enables the Enoch Mgijima Municipality’s collapse.
Sakeliga state of disaster case: Dlamini-Zuma resorts to desperate delay tactics to avoid jail time
After weeks of being in contempt of a final court order to provide Sakeliga with records of her decision-making about the government’s Covid state of disaster, Dr Nkosazana-Dlamini Zuma, Minister of Cooperative Government, now wants that court order set aside. This constitutes a desperate attempt by the minister to avoid jail time and the delivery […]
Stop load reduction
STOP LOAD REDUCTION Support this case Why this case? This court case against Eskom seeks to bring relief to businesses and other paying direct end users of Eskom who have been subjected since 2021 to “load reduction” — irregular power outages implemented on top of load shedding. Correspondence accessed by Sakeliga indicates that Eskom is […]
Sakeliga initiates process to have Dlamini-Zuma found guilty of contempt of court
Dr Nkosazana-Dlamini Zuma, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, remains in contempt of a court order directing her to submit to Sakeliga several records concerning her 2020 state of disaster decisions. As a result, Sakeliga has now started a process to have the minister declared guilty of contempt of court. In terms of an […]
Dlamini-Zuma fails to comply with court order on state of disaster information for Sakeliga
Dr Nkosazana-Dlamini Zuma has failed to comply with the court order to hand over the complete records of her state of disaster decisions to Sakeliga. On 9 November 2022, the High Court ordered Dlamini-Zuma to comply by 22 December 2022 with the information request that Sakeliga submitted to her in December 2020. The request for […]
Sakeliga takes Eskom to court over load reduction
Sakeliga, in collaboration with Agri North-West, TLU SA and affected businesses, launched a court application against Eskom today with the view of ending targeted load reduction on numerous feeder lines across the country. For more than a year now, Eskom has regularly and for hours on end been terminating the power supply of direct users […]