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News24 reports that a Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officer is in a serious, but stable, condition following a shootout in Turffontein on Tuesday evening. Source: Latest News
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SA Express staff in desperate plea to government for payment of outstanding salaries and severance packages
Business Report writes that desperate SA Express workers on Tuesday pleaded with the government to pay them their three months of outstanding salaries and severance packages before the airline’s provisional liquidation was made final next week. Source: Latest News
UIF working to dramatically increase its capacity to pay out conventional as well as Ters claims
Financial Mail reports that after a rocky start, the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) is working hard to dramatically increase its capacity to pay out conventional unemployment benefits as well as temporary employer/employee relief scheme (Ters) claims. Source: Latest News
SGB member at Pretoria high school tests positive for Covid-19 after inspecting school readiness
TimesLIVE reports that amid preparations for the return of grade 12 pupils, a member of the school governing body (SGB) of Hillview High School in Pretoria might have unknowingly brought the coronavirus onto the school premises. Source: Latest News
Mogale City workers still on go-slow, while council approves R100m overdraft to cover its financial shortfall
Krugersdorp News reports that workers in Mogale City Local Municipality’s employ are still on a go-slow as seemingly negotiations between the municipality’s management and the workers’ unions have not proved fruitful. Source: Latest News
East London medical doctor bust three times for sick note racket released on R3,000 bail
News24 Wire reports that an East London medical doctor, who was arrested on Thursday for allegedly selling a sick note to an undercover Hawks agent, was released on R3,000 bail by the East London Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. Source: Latest News
North West school closed after principal tested positive for Covid-19
TimesLIVE reports that a 56-year-old North West school principal tested positive for Covid-19 after feeling ill this week. Source: Latest News
Retrenchment proceedings at Comair ongoing, with a slimmed down fleet envisaged in rescue plan
BusinessLive reports that the business rescue practitioners (BRPs) for Comair, which operates Kulula.com and British Airways flights in SA, said on Tuesday that they were in talks with funders and that the company was unlikely to resume operations before November. Source: Latest News
Public Service Commission clears acting CEO of Government Printing Works of corruption
BusinessLive reports that the Public Service Commission (PSC) on Tuesday said it found no evidence to support allegations of corruption against the acting CEO of the Government Printing Works (GPW), Alinah Fosi. Source: Latest News
Unions call for Tygerberg Hospital to be shut down ‘to prevent a catastrophe’
BusinessLive reports that more than 150 health care workers have tested positive for Covid-19 at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, according to the Health and Other Services Personnel Trade Union of SA (Hospersa). Source: Latest News