{"id":167794,"date":"2025-08-09T22:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=167794"},"modified":"2025-08-09T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:17:14","slug":"samatu-secures-court-victory-for-eastern-cape-doctors-facing-demotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=167794","title":{"rendered":"SAMATU secures court victory for Eastern Cape doctors facing demotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour Court in Gqeberha has sided with the South African Medical Association Trade Union (SAMATU) in a case involving eight doctors who faced unjust demotions due to administrative failures by the Eastern Cape Department of Health. This after the department failed to accurately process the doctors\u2019 grade progression&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/news\/samatu-secures-court-victory-for-eastern-cape-doctors-facing-demotions\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=samatu-secures-court-victory-for-eastern-cape-doctors-facing-demotions\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour Court in Gqeberha has sided with the South African Medical Association Trade Union<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167794-samatu-secures-court-victory-for-eastern-cape-doctors-facing-demotions.jpg",1163,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167794-samatu-secures-court-victory-for-eastern-cape-doctors-facing-demotions-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167794-samatu-secures-court-victory-for-eastern-cape-doctors-facing-demotions-300x155.jpg",300,155,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167794-samatu-secures-court-victory-for-eastern-cape-doctors-facing-demotions-768x396.jpg",640,330,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167794-samatu-secures-court-victory-for-eastern-cape-doctors-facing-demotions-1024x528.jpg",640,330,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167794-samatu-secures-court-victory-for-eastern-cape-doctors-facing-demotions.jpg",1163,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167794-samatu-secures-court-victory-for-eastern-cape-doctors-facing-demotions.jpg",1163,600,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167794-samatu-secures-court-victory-for-eastern-cape-doctors-facing-demotions-1024x528.jpg",1024,528,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167794-samatu-secures-court-victory-for-eastern-cape-doctors-facing-demotions-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167794-samatu-secures-court-victory-for-eastern-cape-doctors-facing-demotions-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}