TimesLIVE reports that Tshwane traffic remained congested on Tuesday due to the continued municipal workers’ strike.  The strike started on Thursday, but after negotiations between the union and council reached a deadlock, the strike intensified on Monday morning.   Source: Latest News

Fin24 reports that trade union Solidarity announced on Monday that it would serve state-owned arms manufacturer Denel with court papers on Wednesday and announce further legal action thereafter.   Source: Latest News

BusinessLive reports that Statistics SA indicated on Monday in its 2019 midyear population estimates that there are about 58.78-million people living in SA today.   Source: Latest News

Reuters reports that SA’s second quarter unemployment rate rose to 29.0%, its highest level in more than a decade, from 27.6% in the first quarter.   Source: Latest News

HeraldLive reports that a man was killed while another three managed to escape when the water pipe they were fixing burst and caused the trench in which they were working to fill up, with one of the workers stuck inside.   Source: Latest News

Business Report writes that the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) has called on the government to turn up the heat on Harmony Gold where seven mineworkers have died at the company’s SA operations so far this year.   Source: Latest News

BusinessLive reports that Eskom board chair Jabu Mabuza will take up the role of acting CEO of the troubled state-owned entity for the next three months, public enterprise minister Pravin Gordhan advised on Monday.   Source: Latest News

BusinessLive reports that the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) has vowed to intensify its crippling industrial action in Tshwane, which saw the entire CBD gridlocked on Monday, should the employer not table a revised wage offer by Tuesday.   Source: Latest News

BL Premium reports that six of SA’s biggest gold mining companies could be liable to pay victims of silicosis more than the R5bn specified in a settlement approved by the High Court in Johannesburg.   Source: Latest News

In our afternoon roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that appeared thus far on Monday, 29 July 2019. Source: Latest News