LABOUR PARTY INTERVENTION LEADS TO RESTORATION OF POWER IN GREATER TAUNG
MEDIA RELEASE2025-03-06 SUMMARY: The Labour Party of South Africa (Labour Party) has welcomed the restoration of electricity in Ward 3 of the Greater Taung Municipality following its intervention. The Party says the development reflects its commitment to practical action that restores essential services to communities. The Labour Party welcomes the restoration of electricity in Ward […]
LABOUR PARTY DISTANCES ITSELF FROM DISORDERLY REMOVAL OF THABAZIMBI MUNICIPAL MANAGER
MEDIA RELEASE2025-03-05 SUMMARY: The Labour Party of South Africa (Labour Party) has formally distanced itself from the purported termination of the Thabazimbi Municipal Manager following reports that the decision was allegedly taken without a properly convened council meeting. The Party states that municipal governance must adhere strictly to lawful council processes and cannot be conducted […]
LABOUR PARTY SAYS NO TO BUDGET WITHOUT REFORM
MEDIA RELEASE2025-02-25 SUMMARY: The Labour Party of South Africa (Labour Party) notes that while the Budget Speech promised investor-friendly reforms, the working class continues to confront broken services, corruption and deep inequality that no amount of rhetoric can mask. The Party argues that true transformation in South Africa requires ethical governance and practical solutions that […]
LABOUR PARTY CRITICISES GOVERNMENT FOR FAILING TO CURB CRIME AND UNEMPLOYMENT
MEDIA RELEASE2025-02-21 SUMMARY: The Labour Party of South Africa (Labour Party) holds the African National Congress (ANC), now part of the Government of National Unity (GNU), directly responsible for South Africa’s escalating crime and unemployment crisis after nearly three decades in power. Despite marginal statistical shifts, violent crime remains at war-like levels, while under-reporting continues […]
LABOUR PARTY WARNS AGAINST CENTRALISATION AS COGTA EXTENDS NATIONAL STATE OF DISASTER
MEDIA RELEASE2025-02-16 SUMMARY: The Labour Party of South Africa (Labour Party) notes the extension of the National State of Disaster and cautions that disaster management must not be used to centralise power at the expense of provincial autonomy, municipal authority and traditional leadership. The Party reaffirms its federal vision of self-determination under a united constitutional […]
LABOUR PARTY SLAMS SONA AS RECYCLED PROMISES AND GOVERNANCE FAILURE
MEDIA RELEASE2025-02-13 SUMMARY: The Labour Party of South Africa (Labour Party) has rejected the 2026 State of the Nation Address (SONA) as a recycled script of unimplemented promises, accusing the Government of National Unity (GNU) of presiding over deepening crime, economic stagnation, infrastructure collapse and policy paralysis. The Party says South Africans do not need […]
LABOUR PARTY CRITIQUES NATIONAL DECLINE AHEAD OF SONA
MEDIA RELEASE2025-02-12 SUMMARY: The Labour Party of South Africa (Labour Party) has condemned and critiqued the ANC and the GNU ahead of the 2026 SONA, calling it a failed government that has eroded democracy, mismanaged the economy, and allowed crime to escalate. The Party calls for a political reset, and meaningful job creation. The State […]
LABOUR PARTY CONDEMNS GNU FAILURE AS FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE SPREADS
MEDIA RELEASE2026-02-09 SUMMARY: The Labour Party of South Africa (Labour Party) holds the Government of National Unity directly responsible for the uncontrolled spread of foot-and-mouth disease in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape, warning that coalition politics, institutional decay and the absence of decisive leadership have turned a preventable animal health outbreak into […]
LABOUR PARTY SLAMS ZERO RATE CUT
MEDIA RELEASE2026-01-30 SUMMARY: The Labour Party of South Africa (Labour Party) has condemned the SARB’s decision to keep the repo rate at 6,75%, warning that a 10,25% prime lending rate is still suffocating working-class communities amid rising unemployment and a deepening cost-of-living crisis. Yesterday (29 January 2026) the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the South […]
LABOUR PARTY STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH RAPE VICTIM
MEDIA RELEASE2026-01-29 SUMMARY: The Labour Party of South Africa (Labour Party) marched in numbers to the Witbank Magistrate’s Court in solidarity with a young boy living with disabilities who was allegedly sexually assaulted by an alleged illegal foreigner. The Party condemned the continued failure to meaningfully address gender-based violence and violence against children. On 28 […]