Bloomberg News reports that Dubai’s DSA Investments is considering forming a venture with the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) to bid for coal assets that Glencore was pressured into selling to a company controlled by the politically-connected Gupta family in 2015. Source: Latest News
Fin24 reports that a total of R2.6bn new investments have been signed at the Coega Special Economic Zone, with expectations that they would create more than 2,000 jobs. Source: Latest News
TimesLIVE reports that an application for the business rescue of South African Airways (SAA) is to be brought by the Solidarity Network, as part of a tax protest campaign that the civic organisation is launching. Source: Latest News
TimesLIVE reports that three injured firefighters were taken to hospital for treatment after responding to a fire that gutted dozens of shacks overnight in Masiphumelele, Cape Town. Source: Latest News
TimesLIVE reports that buses caused havoc in the Pretoria CBD on Monday morning as some City of Tshwane employees went on strike demanding 18% salary increases. Source: Latest News
ANA reports that the Public Servants Association (PSA) has expressed concern about reported investigations by the Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, into SA Revenue Service (Sars) human resources processes and the appointment of new Sars commissioner Edward Kieswetter. Source: Latest News
Business Report writes that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is slowly expanding their footprint in South Africa and Cape Town is going to be home to an AWS infrastructure that should be operational by early 2020. Source: Latest News
The Mercury reports that the results of a recent global research study found that SA has the highest rate of employees who are open to leaving and actively planning to leave their current employment. Source: Latest News
Business Report writes that telecoms company Telkom paid group chief executive Sipho Maseko 14.7% less pay in the year ended March 2019 compared to a year earlier, as fewer shares were vested to him in the year under review. Source: Latest News
In our roundup of weekend news, see summaries of our selection of South African labour-related stories that appeared since Friday, 26 July 2019. Source: Latest News
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