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Mining Weekly Online reports that an employee was fatally injured in a rail bound accident at Harmony Gold’s Kusasalethu mine, near Carletonville, on Monday. Source: Latest News
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Pension fund reforms aim to tackle SA’s failure to save
BDLIve reports that Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas said on Monday that the decline in SA’s savings to 14.9% of gross domestic product (GDP), from 18.9% of GDP in 1990, prompted the state to institute pension reforms. Source: Latest News
Woman named first regional winner of Western Cape farmworker competition
Engineering News reports that Lien Visage, a community development worker at Donkerbos, near Rietfontein, has won the Witzenberg regional of the 2015 Farmworker of the Year competition. Source: Latest News
Study finds that SA needs to train more teachers
The Mercury reports that new research indicates that South Africa is still not graduating enough new teachers, despite the growth in students studying education at public universities. Source: Latest News
Editorial: Much rests on gold wage deal
In its Tuesday editorial, Business Day writes that last week gold producers were optimistic that the four trade unions representing their workers would accept the “final” offer they had tabled. Source: Latest News
Tanker drivers survive N2 Durban highway blaze
News24 reports that paramedics have confirmed the drivers of the diesel and petrol tankers which collided at the Sarnia road overhead bridge on the N2 in Durban earlier on Tuesday morning survived the incident. Source: Latest News
Presidential Remuneration Review Commission extends deadline for submissions
The Presidential Remuneration Review Commission (PRRC) has extended the deadline for written submissions from all stakeholders in all government departments and in public entities to 31 August 2015. Source: Latest News
Eskom does about turn on nonpayment of bonuses, but calls them ex-gratia payments
BDLive reports that in two weeks, Eskom has gone from saying no staff bonuses would be paid, to promising ex-gratia payments to its unionised staff, to capitulating and agreeing to pay all staff — except the top management — a special payment. Source: Latest News
Some NUM members have reportedly rejected gold sector wage offer
Reuters reports that some members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) rejected a pay hike of up to 17% by gold producers, a union source said on Monday. Source: Latest News
Web links to a selection of labour news reports posted on 3 August 2015
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the World Wide Web on Monday, 3 August 2015. Source: Latest News