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Open CCMA Campaign pushes for CCMA to return to full functionality amid huge backlog
Cape Times reports that the Open CCMA Campaign has again called for the full functionality of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), to attend to what it said was a huge backlog of cases and for budget cuts to be reversed. Source: Latest News
SAA may be guilty of negligence in not timeously reporting near-stall incident on February flight to Brussels to collect vaccines
The Citizen reports that the SA Civil Aviation Authority (Sacaa) says a preliminary assessment indicates that SA Airways (SAA) was negligent in not reporting within the legal time limit a safety-related incident involving an Airbus A340-600 chartered to fly to Belgium to collect Covid-19 vaccines. Source: Latest News
Amid cash crisis, Denel denies that executives in its Land Systems Division are receiving full salaries
The Citizen reports that state-owned military technology company Denel has denied claims that its Land Systems (DLS) executives were getting full salaries in the wake of the division’s financial woes. Source: Latest News
Minerals Council says penalties in Compensation of Occupational Injuries and Diseases Amendment Bill are ‘draconian’
BL Premium reports that the Minerals Council SA (MCSA), formerly called the Chamber of Mines, has objected to what it says are “draconian” penalties for relatively minor contraventions contained in the Compensation of Occupational Injuries and Diseases Amendment Bill. Source: Latest News
Two Limpopo cops jailed for five years for soliciting R1,000 bribe from motorist
News24 reports that two Limpopo police officers have been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment after the Mokopane Regional Court found them guilty of corruption. Source: Latest News
Community health workers in Cape Town confront Health Minister Zweli Mkhize with their list of demands
GroundUp reports that about 20 community health workers confronted Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize with a memorandum of demands during his visit to Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital in Mitchell’s Plain on Monday. Source: Latest News
Putco mechanic dies after being driven over by bus in freak accident on Wednesday
SowetanLive reports that a 61-year-old man has died at Putco’s Dobsonville depot in Soweto after he was run over by a bus driver while he was fixing the vehicle. Source: Latest News
Dispute declared in civil engineering industry over unions’ demand for 15% wage increase
BL Premium reports that employers and unions in the struggling construction industry are set to hold mediation talks after a deadlock in wage negotiations. Source: Latest News
Security officer who took shelter under vehicle which was then petrol-bombed seriously injured during attack at Cape Town landfill site
News24 reports that a City of Cape Town security officer was seriously injured in an attack at the Coastal Park Landfill site in Vrygrond on Sunday. Source: Latest News