Rising Sun Overport reports that a pension fund has been slated by the Deputy Pension Funds Adjudicator, Advocate Matome Thulare, for not including a deceased member’s romantic partner and child in the distribution of the deceased’s death benefit. Source: Latest News
Bloomberg reports that Fitch Ratings said on Monday that SA might struggle to stick to a plan to rein in government spending by freezing public-sector wages. Source: Latest News
TimesLIVE reports that the Hawks on Friday arrested two men for their alleged involvement in a cash-in-transit robbery in Soshanguve, Pretoria, in October last year. They will join four others who were previously arrested for the robbery. Source: Latest News
News24 reports that two people have been arrested in Marble Hall for allegedly impersonating Hawks officers and attempting to solicit a R50,000 bribe. Source: Latest News
News24 reports that a security officer who was contracted to Eskom was shot dead last week while patrolling in Soweto. “An Eskom-contracted security officer sustained gunshot injuries on Thursday evening while on patrol along the Chris Hani Road in Soweto,” the power utility indicated in a statement. Source: Latest News
TimesLIVE writes that government’s inability to resolve the deep-rooted issue of the hiring of foreign national truck drivers has again resulted in protest action. Source: Latest News
In our roundup of weekend news, see summaries of our selection of South African labour-related stories that appeared since Friday, 20 November 2020. Source: Latest News
EWN reports that with employees of the SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) demanding an end to planned retrenchments, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) on Saturday said that it had written to National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise requesting her to consider allowing an urgent debate to discuss the crisis. Source: Latest News
Moneyweb reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) has accused Comair of colluding with another union, Solidarity, to circumvent the airline’s ongoing retrenchment process. Source: Latest News
Saturday Citizen reports that the SA Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC’s) managers and supervisors far outnumber “general” workers and that is one of the reasons that the average salary at the public broadcaster is almost R800,000 a year. Source: Latest News
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