{"id":90103,"date":"2025-09-19T19:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20"},"modified":"2025-09-19T19:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:46:26","slug":"samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20","title":{"rendered":"SAMWU Plans to Make Gauteng Ungovernable During G20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) is threatening to make Gauteng &#8220;ungovernable&#8221; during the G20 Summit if some of its demands are not met.<\/p>\n<p>The trade union held a media briefing today to express its unhappiness with the Tshwane council voting to increase the salaries of its councillors by five percent, while worker wages remain stagnant.<\/p>\n<p>Among its several demands, the union wants the increases for councillors to be reversed.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, the G20 event is being held on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>The event will see heads of state, foreign ministers, and many other experts from across the world gather in the country for talks about global economics.<\/p>\n<p>Johannesburg has been chosen as the host city, however, the metro cities of Tshwane and Ekurhuleni will also host ancillary G20 events.<\/p>\n<p>SAMWU regional chairperson, Lehlohonolo Maphatsoe, said those who have been working hard to ensure the metros are ready for the event are not being appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they do not reverse the 5% salary increase that they resolved upon, in the presence of the provincial chair, there will be no G20 in Gauteng. We will mobilise more than 50,000 members of SAMWU in Tshwane. Actually, we are working on a build-up programme to ensure that Gauteng will be ungovernable. Gauteng will be ungovernable, there will be no G20 here in Gauteng, so that they know, workers, especially in Tshwane, do not enjoy a healthy relationship with the employer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The G20 Leaders&#8217; Summit is scheduled to take place in Johannesburg on November 22 &#8211; 23.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) is threatening to make Gauteng &#8220;ungovernable&#8221; during the G20 Summit if some of its demands are not met. The trade union held a media briefing today to express its unhappiness with the Tshwane council voting to increase the salaries of its councillors by five percent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":90102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-90103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SAMWU Plans to Make Gauteng Ungovernable During G20 - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) is threatening to make Gauteng &quot;ungovernable&quot; during the G20 Summit if ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SAMWU Plans to Make Gauteng Ungovernable During G20\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) is threatening to make Gauteng &quot;ungovernable&quot; during the G20 Summit if ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-19T19:22:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-19T19:46:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/09\/sm_1758298518.435825.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"SAMWU Plans to Make Gauteng Ungovernable During G20\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-19T19:22:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-19T19:46:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20\"},\"wordCount\":273,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/09\/sm_1758298518.435825.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20\",\"name\":\"SAMWU Plans to Make Gauteng Ungovernable During G20 - South Africa\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/09\/sm_1758298518.435825.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-19T19:22:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-19T19:46:26+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) is threatening to make Gauteng \\\"ungovernable\\\" during the G20 Summit if ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/09\/sm_1758298518.435825.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/09\/sm_1758298518.435825.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":630,\"caption\":\"SAMWU Plans to Make Gauteng Ungovernable During G20\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"SAMWU Plans to Make Gauteng Ungovernable During G20\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/\",\"name\":\"South Africa\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"SAMWU Plans to Make Gauteng Ungovernable During G20 - South Africa","description":"The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) is threatening to make Gauteng \"ungovernable\" during the G20 Summit if ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"SAMWU Plans to Make Gauteng Ungovernable During G20","og_description":"The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) is threatening to make Gauteng \"ungovernable\" during the G20 Summit if ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20","og_site_name":"South Africa","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2025-09-19T19:22:10+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-09-19T19:46:26+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":630,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/09\/sm_1758298518.435825.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"SAMWU Plans to Make Gauteng Ungovernable During G20","datePublished":"2025-09-19T19:22:10+00:00","dateModified":"2025-09-19T19:46:26+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20"},"wordCount":273,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/09\/sm_1758298518.435825.jpg","keywords":["South-Africa"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20","name":"SAMWU Plans to Make Gauteng Ungovernable During G20 - South Africa","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/09\/sm_1758298518.435825.jpg","datePublished":"2025-09-19T19:22:10+00:00","dateModified":"2025-09-19T19:46:26+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) is threatening to make Gauteng \"ungovernable\" during the G20 Summit if ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/09\/sm_1758298518.435825.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/09\/sm_1758298518.435825.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"caption":"SAMWU Plans to Make Gauteng Ungovernable During G20"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/samwu-plans-to-make-gauteng-ungovernable-during-g20#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"SAMWU Plans to Make Gauteng Ungovernable During G20"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/","name":"South Africa","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}