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Sadtu expresses caution over Eskom bailout through pension funds

The Star reports that the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) has warned that labour federation Cosatu’s plan to financially assist Eskom with public servants’ pension funds will not go ahead before workers have been adequately consulted.   Source: Latest News

CDE’s Ann Bernstein calls for a new approach to the jobs crisis

BusinessLive reports that one of a raft of proposals made by Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) executive director Ann Bernstein on Thursday was that the government has to shift its industrial policy from a focus on capital-intensive industries towards labour-intensive ones if it was to make any inroads into...