Daily News reports that a 23-year-old Durban woman, who works as a call centre agent, was arrested for fraud in Pietermaritzburg on Friday.  The woman apparently accompanied a foreigner who was applying for a passport to the Pietermaritzburg home affairs offices “a while ago”.   Source: Latest News

The Citizen reports that media conglomerate Tiso Blackstar has announced that its tabloid Sunday World publication will be closing down.   Source: Latest News

EWN reports that security been heightened on a stretch of the N1 in the De Doorns area in the Western Cape.  Three trucks have been targeted by criminals since Sunday.   Source: Latest News

SABC News reports that former employees of Lily Mine in Barberton, Mpumalanga, have threatened to go underground to retrieve a container in which three people were trapped and killed after the mine caved in three years ago as a result of a crown pillar collapse.   Source: Latest News

Fin24 reports that SA’s unemployment rate increased to 27.6% in the first quarter of 2019, Stats SA announced on Tuesday.  The jobless rate at the end of the fourth quarter of 2018 was 27.1%, meaning the rate increased by half a percentage point.   Source: Latest News

The Star reports that the dead bodies of two men, suspected to be illegal miners, were found on Monday morning at the sides of two roads in Ekurhuleni in the vicinity of an abandoned mine shaft where illegal mining is known to take place.   Source: Latest News

ANA reports that the Department of Labour in the North West pointed out on Monday that labour inspectors did not issue spot fines.   Source: Latest News

The Citizen reports that the wheels of justice could grind to a halt countrywide if a brewing national strike at Legal Aid SA is not averted.   Source: Latest News

GroundUp reports that farm workers from Oak Valley Estate and supporters from Grabouw blocked the N2 highway near Sir Lowry’s Pass on Monday demanding a wage increase to R250 per day, an end to labour brokering, and the removal of single-sex hostels.   Source: Latest News

Bloomberg writes that when the world’s biggest platinum producers sit down with labour unions this month to negotiate a new three-year wage deal, it could prove an early test of Cyril Ramaphosa’s new presidency.   Source: Latest News