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Land Bill

PARLIAMENT is gearing to vote on a

Bill calling for the expropriation of land without compensation. The ANC says that the state can only be custodian of certain sections of the land. The EFF believes that the state must be the sole custodian of all land in the country. The National Assembly will require a two-thirds majority or 67% of MPS to vote on the expropriation of land without compensation. The DA, Freedom Front Plus, the ACDP and other parties do not back the bill. The EFF and ANC’S negotiations on land collapsed after they failed to agree on custodianship. |

ANC wages

ANC employees continue to wait for their salaries to be paid despite staging protests outside Luthuli House. ANC staff representative committee chairperson Mvusi Mdala said: “Our salaries are still outstanding for four months. We delivered our memorandum of demand in June. The last salary we received was in August.” He said ANC employees’ houses were being repossessed, school fees were outstanding and they were struggling to pay basic bills. “The only available option to us is to involve the highest court of the country,” he said. |

Social workers

THE Department of Social Development and departments requiring the services of social workers will make a joint bid for funding of the employment of thousands of social workers to the National Treasury. This was revealed by Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu after parliamentary questions from DA MP Bridget Masango, who asked about Zulu’s negotiations with other departments to absorb over 8 000 unemployed social workers. Meanwhile, 1 300 social workers appointed on threemonth contracts through the Presidential Employment Intervention have had these extended until March. |