Fin24 reports that nearly 100 employees are set to lose their jobs if fishing group Oceana shuts down its Hout Bay operation.   Source: Latest News

Sunday Tribune reports that primary health care at state hospitals and clinics countrywide will be hit if 5,400 laboratory workers go on strike as planned on 20 August.   Source: Latest News

AFP reports that that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has called for an indefinite strike starting on Sunday at Nkomati Nickel Mine, jointly owned by the Russian group Norilsk and African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), over the car allowance and the long service award.   Source: Latest News

EWN reports that the Mineral Resources Department has come under fire for its jobs task team set up to manage retrenchments in the mining sector with accusations of it being nothing more than a public relations exercise.   Source: Latest News

DispatchLive reports that Walter Sisulu University (WSU) is investigating the qualifications of two senior engineering lecturers alleged to have bought fake masters degrees from a dodgy United States university.   Source: Latest News

ANA reports that the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) has formally informed Rand Water of its intention of going on full-blown protected strike action.   Source: Latest News

News24 reports that the miners arrested at Marikana in 2012 on Friday launched a civil claim against government totalling more than R1bn.   Source: Latest News

Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the World Wide Web on Friday, 14 August 2015. Source: Latest News

In our Friday roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that have appeared since mid-morning on Thursday, 13 August 2015. Source: Latest News

Sowetan reports that today government, unions and the mining industry will be locked in tough talks to try to avert a jobs bloodbath in the mining industry.   Source: Latest News