Press Release

SAPTU finds it alarming that top management of the Department of Higher Education, Science and Technology, does not consider the critical challenges facing higher education

SAPTU is saddened by the turn in events at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), leading to one person’s death after students protested historical debt

SAPTU is concerned that the Minister of Finance, Mr Tito Mboweni’s 2021 budget speech is just a wish list, as he confirmed that the country’s

SAPTU is disappointed by reports that front line medical workers were either denied or had to wait for hours in queues – without little regard

SAPTU is cautiously optimistic about the announcements made in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation last night. “We see a clear commitment to creating

SAPTU takes note of the amendment of the National Minimum Wage to R21,69 per hour for farmworkers. The minister for employment and labour, Mr Thulas

SAPTU wishes to thank the government and the Department of Health for acquiring vaccines against COVID-19 and making it available to frontline workers first. The

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s silence on the public sector wage dispute while addressing members of NEDLAC is a missed opportunity to prove the government realise the

SAPTU wishes to raise its concern about the CCMA’s (Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration) decision to terminate the service of more than 500 part-time

The South African Parastatal and Tertiary Institutions Union (SAPTU) expressed their sincere condolences to the families and colleagues of the medical personnel and pilot who