News24 reports that a deadly cash-in-transit (CIT) heist in Bekkersdal on Tuesday claimed the lives of a security guard and a female motorist and left seven people including guards, traffic officers and two minor children wounded. Source: Latest News
Moneyweb reports that it was revealed in response to parliamentary questions that about R161 million paid out from the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s (UIF’s) Covid-19 Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) was to people who should not have received it. Source: Latest News
TimesLIVE reports that the case against controversial businessman Thoshan Panday and his co-accused, retired KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) police commissioner Mmamonnye Ngobeni and former police officers Ashwin Narainpershad and Navin Madhoe, was scheduled to resume in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. Source: Latest News
TimesLIVE reports that an academic at the University of SA (Unisa) has expressed fears that lecturers will be “pressurised to falsely inflate marks” as pass rates in modules are among the performance indicators now used to determine staff bonuses. Source: Latest News
TimesLIVE reports that two senior members of the Hawks (Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation) and a former police officer implicated in irregular promotional appointments were granted bail on Tuesday in the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court. Source: Latest News
Pretoria News reports that trade union Solidarity is planning to turn to the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria for an urgent application against the SA Post Office (Sapo) in a bid to secure workers’ rights. Source: Latest News
Fin24 reports that thousands of retirement fund members, former members and pensioners stand to benefit from millions of rands held in surplus unclaimed benefits of retirement funds following three judgements of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA). Source: Latest News
BL Premium reports that in the light of a new report released on Tuesday by Business Unity SA (Busa), big business has called for hard decisions to be made over SA’s public sector wage bill. Source: Latest News
City Press reports that the Department of Women, Youth and Persons With Disabilities has found itself mired in controversy for allegedly overlooking qualified disabled candidates for a senior position. Source: Latest News
TimesLIVE reports that a 31-year-old Nkandla policeman has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his branch commander, whom he shot twice in the charge office where they both worked. Source: Latest News
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