News24 Wire reports that many of the firefighters risking their lives to bring Cape Town’s devastating Table Mountain fire under control are doing so while in a protracted dispute over their shifts, and are worried about being fired. Source: Latest News

The Citizen reports that according to the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu), the state of Gauteng public hospitals has been “deplorable” for years. Source: Latest News

BL Premium reports that more than 15-million residents in Gauteng could be left without water when the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) goes on an indefinite strike at Rand Water from Wednesday. Source: Latest News

Mining Weekly reports that Bushveld Minerals announced on 19 April that industrial action at its Vametco operations, in North West province, resulted in a temporary halt in production from 16 April. Source: Latest News

The Citizen reports that a small group of security guards, proudly insourced by former City of Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba in 2018, have been sitting without work for almost two years. Source: Latest News

BusinessLive reports that the government has been accused of rushing its plans for establishing a no-fault compensation fund for severe side-effects from Covid-19 vaccines. Source: Latest News

The Citizen reports that according to the Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng, last week’s fire at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital was the fourth such fire in the province in the past six years. Source: Latest News

News24 reports that a gang of armed robbers held a sports anchor and her crew at gunpoint in Khayelitsha on Saturday and robbed them of equipment while they were working there. Source: Latest News

News24 reports that information that came to light in a parliamentary reply last week revealed that not only are SA’s municipalities in a financial and political mess, but they also appear to be led by incompetent officials. Source: Latest News

In our roundup of weekend news, see summaries of our selection of South African labour-related stories that appeared since Friday, 16 April 2021. Source: Latest News