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BDLive reports that Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko has received legal advice on proposed disciplinary action against national police commissioner Gen Riah Phiyega for alleged inappropriate behaviour. Source: Latest News
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NUM still struggling to win over members on platinum belt
Fin24 writes that the once all-powerful National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is still battling to recover from its dramatic drop in membership on the platinum belt in North West. Source: Latest News
Web links to labour articles posted from Friday, 3 April to Monday, 6 April 2015
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the World Wide Web from Friday, 3 April to Monday, 6 April 2015. Source: Latest News
Satawu to resume talks with toll operator this week over members’ strike at toll gates
EWN reports that the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) says it expects to resume talks with toll operator, the Bakwena Platinum Corridor Company, this coming week to discuss workers’ demands. Source: Latest News
Popcru calls for stiffer sentences for attacks on police
SABC News reports that the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) has called for stiffer sentences for those who attack and kill police officers. Source: Latest News
Ill workers’ R80m suit against Sasol ‘a warning for the entire coal mining’, says lawyer
Fin24 writes that human rights lawyer Richard Spoor says that the civil suit against Sasol filed last week for a total of R80 million damages relating to lung diseases should serve as a warning for the entire coal mining industry. Source: Latest News
Eighty-five police officers killed in the past twelve months
African News Agency reports that eighty-five police officers were killed in the past 12 months, the police ministry reported on Saturday. Source: Latest News
Revealing results of survey of domestic workers’ wages and conditions
Rapport reports on the findings of a survey it commissioned of Forum24 on the number of people who have domestic workers in their employ, the workers’ average daily and monthly wages, average number of years in service and the duties the workers were expected to perform. Source: Latest News
Suspect arrested in Gauteng N3 highway cop killings
News24 reports that a KwaZulu-Natal man thought to have ties to the killing of two police officers in a shootout on the N3 highway near Modderfontein, Johannesburg, last week, was arrested on Sunday. Source: Latest News
Public order policing head stabbed to death in street had Marikana links
Colonel David Makhubela, the top-ranking policeman who was stabbed to death on a Turffontein street south of Johannesburg on Friday night, had links to the Marikana tragedy on 16 August 2012. Source: Latest News