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Fin24 reports that the SA workforce and pensioners are taking home almost as much income as they used to before the Covid-19 pandemic. Source: Latest News
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Fatal shooting of Richards Bay Minerals GM highlights the spectre of bloodshed looming over the mine
Fin24 reports that when Rio Tinto’s Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) general manager for operations Nico Swart was gunned down on his way to work on Monday morning, it raised anxieties that recent spates of violence, intimidation and killings that have dogged the mine might be resurfacing. Source: Latest News
Marikana trial told that 'provoked' miners had posed no threat when tear gas, stun grenades were fired at them
News24 reports that a Rustenburg police officer testifying in the murder trial of former North West deputy police commissioner Major General William Mpembe and five other officers did not mince his words on Wednesday. Source: Latest News
Delays in verification of local and foreign qualifications after SAA bailout clipped SA Qualifications Authority’s budget
TimesLIVE reports that the SA Qualifications Authority (SAQA), which retrenched more than half of its staff earlier this month, has been burdened with delays in the verification of local qualifications and the evaluation of foreign certificates, diplomas and degrees. Source: Latest News
Unemployed youth march to mine in Ephraim Mogale municipality in Limpopo to demand jobs
SowetanLive reports that residents of villages in the Ephraim Mogale local municipality in Limpopo recently mobilised local businesses to donate cash and food towards a march by unemployed youth to seek jobs at a local mine. Source: Latest News
Unfinalised wage talks the greatest risk to metro budgets, says Joburg MMC
BL Premium reports that according to City of Johannesburg finance MMC Jolidee Matongo, unfinalised wage talks in the local government sector, where unions are demanding above-inflation increases, are one of the greatest risks to the metro’s R73.3bn budget for 2021/2022. Source: Latest News
Metrobus in court on Thursday to stop costly, four-week strike by Demawusa
BL Premium reports that according to Metrobus, it is exploring all avenues to end an indefinite strike that has brought its bus operations to a halt, including approaching the courts to try to interdict the industrial action by the Democratic Municipal and Allied Workers’ Union of SA (Demawusa). Source: Latest...
Nolitha Fakude becomes first woman mining industry president in 131 years
Mining Weekly reports that the board members of the Minerals Council SA (MCSA) on Wednesday elected the industry association’s first female president in 131 years. Source: Latest News
Trade union Uasa blasts government for paying for Cuban engineers while Denel employees aren’t paid
Engineering News reports that trade union Uasa has blasted the government for spending a significant sum of taxpayers’ money over the last few years on employing Cuban ‘service providers’, instead of using the money to save the jobs of SA engineers. Source: Latest News
Change to employment equity bill will require minister to consult with economic sectors when setting numerical targets
BL Premium reports that the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) has agreed to an amendment to the Employment Equity Amendment Bill to require the minister to consult with economic sectors when setting numerical targets for them to achieve employment equity. Source: Latest News