News24 reports that a lawyer for the mineworkers arrested and injured during the 2012 Marikana shooting said on Tuesday that President Jacob Zuma has shown contempt for the miners by telling Parliament before responding to them about the release of the Farlam inquiry’s report.   Source: Latest News

BDLIve reports that, as strike season approaches, particularly in the gold and coal sectors, Phathekile Holomisa, Deputy Minister of Labour, warns that unions should act in the interests of their members and not try to outdo each other with their demands.   Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that South African engineers are calling for their Cuban counterparts, who have been brought in to help improve service delivery in Free State municipalities, to go home.   Source: Latest News

Sowetan reports that the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) wants to use the court route to force owners of bogus higher education institutions to pay back the money they made through student fees.   Source: Latest News

TimesLive reports that three hundred miners who were injured during the Marikana massacre in 2012 are deciding whether to go ahead with civil actions without the Farlam Commission report, which remains in the hands of President Jacob Zuma.   Source: Latest News

ANN7 reports that the Western Cape Government will honour the province’s top agricultural workers with the launch of its Farm Worker of the Year competition, offering prizes totalling R2.4 million.   Source: Latest News

Engineering News Online reports that trade union Solidarity on Tuesday lambasted government for importing foreign skills in the form of 48 Cuban engineers, instead of appointing South African engineers, calling it a “disgrace”.   Source: Latest News

News24 reports that the CRL Rights Commission, a ‘Chapter 9’ institution that protects cultural and religious practices and linguistic communities, said on Tuesday that the reason why the construction of Eskom’s Medupi power station was suffering delays was because graves were disturbed during construction, upsetting the ancestors.   Source: Latest News

The SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) said in a statement on Tuesday that it feared that the third round of municipal wage negotiations with the SA Local Government Association (Salga) was collapsing.   Source: Latest News

Fin24 reports that South Africa’s unemployment rate in the first quarter of 2015 was at its highest level since 2003, according to Statistics SA, which released its quarterly labour force survey on Tuesday.   Source: Latest News