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News24 reports that on Monday, a 25-year-old unemployed Zimbabwean man asked his neighbours for R100 as he wanted the money to pay to get access to work as an illegal miner in one of the disused mining shafts along the N1 in Maraisburg. Source: Latest News
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Rape scandal rocks Tshwane Police Academy
SowetanLive reports that a 45-year-old police sergeant has appeared in court in connection with the rape of a trainee at the Tshwane Police Academy. Source: SA Labour News
Saftu charges that banking sector serves the interest of dominant capitalist faction without regard for workers
Cape Argus reports that the SA Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) has condemned Standard Bank’s decision to sever ties with Independent Media (IOL). Source: SA Labour News
March by Cosatu members on Friday against cost of living
The Citizen reports that “End poverty” and “High electricity pricing kill the poor” were just some of the slogans on placards of Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members who marched to the Department of Trade and Industry on Friday to hand in a memorandum lamenting the high cost...
Guards at Middelburg Hospital attacked by guards from rival security company
News24 reports that a security guard was injured on Thursday when he and his colleagues on duty at Middelburg Provincial Hospital, Mpumalanga, were shot with rubber bullets, allegedly by officers from a rival security company. Source: SA Labour News
Another wage agreement for textile sector as blanket workers sign two-year deal
Fin24 reports that the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (Sactwu) advised on Sunday that blanket workers have now also settled their 2022 wage negotiations, with the new increases ranging from 7% to 9.11%. Source: SA Labour News
Sibanye-Stillwater says miners taken hostage at K3 shaft in May is typical of social unrest
Miningmx writes that about 50 employees at Sibanye-Stillwater’s Marikana mine were held hostage over two nights in May, according to a letter addressed by the company to the alleged perpetrator, the Marikana Unemployment Forum. Source: SA Labour News
SA Reserve Bank becoming reckless on interest rates, claims Cosatu
The Citizen reports that according to trade union federation Cosatu, the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) is moving from being tolerably assertive to becoming overzealously reckless on interest rates. Source: SA Labour News
Vavi spars with Numsa ahead of metalworker union’s congress
City Press reports that the rift between National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) general secretary Irvin Jim and SA Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) boss Zwelinzima Vavi is overshadowing the forthcoming Numsa congress (also known as the “metalworkers’ parliament”). Source: SA Labour News
Seifsa relaunches its training centre in Actonville, Benoni
Engineering News reports that the Steel and Engineering Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) on 22 July officially relaunched its Seifsa Training Centre (STC) in Actonville, Benoni. Source: SA Labour News