SABC News reports that Thakgoga Projects, a company contracted to rehabilitate asbestos dumps at Prieska in the Northern Cape, has allegedly failed to provide adequate protective gear to its employees. Source: Latest News
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Popcru threatens legal action over SAPS restructuring process
EWN reports that the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) says it will take police management to court to stop the current restructuring process in the SA Police Service (SAPS) and the implementation of the so-called ‘Back to Basics’ programme. Source: Latest News
Major probe by police of SAA staff
TimesLive reports that a unit of the Hawks tasked with investigating crimes against the state is probing SA Airways (SAA) staff and private investigators for espionage, sabotage, fraud and corruption. Source: Latest News
High number of SA job applicants are hiding a criminal record
BusinessTech writes that a new report warns against a proportionately high number of fraudulent CVs in the job market in South Africa. Source: Latest News
Top Denel trio on ‘special leave’ since September, but Minister not yet briefed
defenceWeb reports that Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown will be briefed by the Denel board “in the foreseeable future” on why it decided to suspend three senior members of staff last year. Source: Latest News
Strikes could tip SA into recession, warns Nedbank economist
Fin24 reports that Isaac Matshego, economist of Nedbank’s group economic unit, said on Thursday that the labour market was the greatest cause for concern in the South African economy for 2016. Source: Latest News
DA calls on Eskom’s executive to pay back R63m in bonuses
Fin24 reports that the Democratic Alliance (DA) on Wednesday handed a petition to Eskom CEO Brian Molefe calling on the utility’s executive to pay back R63m in bonuses. Source: Latest News
Agreement reached at University of Pretoria over worker outsourcing
News24 reports that the University of Pretoria (UP), its workers and students reached an agreement over outsourcing on Wednesday. Representatives of contract workers, students, organised labour, and university management, who formed part of the UP commission on insourcing, reached the agreement. Source: Latest News
Court bid by Free State university to save paramedic programme
TimesLive reports that the Central University of Technology in the Free State is approaching the High Court for an urgent interdict to prevent the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) from shutting down its paramedic programme. Source: Latest News
Jailed AbaThembu king still receiving R1.1m salary
Cape Times reports that jailed AbaThembu king Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo is still being paid his R1.1 million salary because President Jacob Zuma hasn’t removed his kingship. Source: Latest News




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