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TimesLIVE reports that health workers in Limpopo have won their fight to ensure a new roster system is not implemented in the province. Source: Latest News
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SACP wholeheartedly backs ANC resolution that criminally charged leaders must step aside
TimesLIVE reports that the SA Communist Party (SACP) has thrown its weight behind the ANC national executive committee’s (NEC’s) resolution that leaders who are criminally charged should step aside. Source: Latest News
Government Employees Pension Fund invested in DRC firm accused of rights abuses
BusinessLive reports that the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) is invested in a Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) palm oil business linked to human rights abuses and land expropriation. Source: Latest News
NYDA is not an employment agency for the politically connected, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane insists
News24 reports that according to Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) is not and has never been an employment agency for the politically connected. Source: Latest News
Two Gauteng cops caught red-handed asking for bribes from undercover officers
News24 reports that two police officers were separately arrested in Gauteng over the long weekend for soliciting bribes of R100 and R200, respectively. Source: Latest News
Afternoon roundup of labour news on Tuesday, 6 April 2021
In our afternoon roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that appeared thus far on Tuesday, 6 April 2021. Source: Latest News
Nehawu welcomes health department’s deal with Pfizer for 20-million Covid-19 vaccine doses
EWN reports that the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) has welcomed the Health Department’s signing of a crucial contract with US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer that will see South Africa receive 20-million Covid-19 vaccine doses. Source: Latest News
WEF says equal gender pay set back a generation by pandemic
Bloomberg reports that the Covid-19 pandemic has rolled back years of progress on gender parity for pay, making women wait a generation longer to earn the same as men. Source: Latest News
Cosatu tells Jacob Zuma to stop playing the victim
Independent Media reports that after the speaking notes that former president Jacob Zuma used when he met with the ANC’s top six early last month became publicly known, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) weighed in and said Zuma must stop playing victim. Source: Latest News
Nehawu ’extremely worried’ about growing number of Covid-19 cases at higher education institutions
The Star reports that the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) is extremely worried about the growing number of Covid-19 cases in institutions of higher learning across the country. Source: Latest News