IOL News reports that SA is expected to see one of its biggest strikes in recent years with Cosatu saying that it expects about 200,000 of its members to take to the streets on Friday to demand decent work.   Source: Latest News

Bloomberg reports that Edcon Holdings, owner of the Edgars and Jet chains, plans to increase its workforce by almost 7% and slash prices as SA’s largest clothing retailer kick-starts a recovery plan.   Source: Latest News

Reuters reports that Chris Griffith, CEO of Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), said on Wednesday that wage talks with unions, including the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) which is the majority union at the company’s Rustenburg mines, were “fairly close” to a deal.   Source: Latest News

Business Report writes that Sibanye Gold on Wednesday resumed its Cooke 4 operations following clashes between members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), which left four miners injured.   Source: Latest News

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Mining Weekly reports that Sibanye Gold has halted operations at its Cooke mine, after four employees were injured in an attack by unknown assailants in the early hours of Tuesday morning.  Two of the four employees were seriously injured and are being treated at local hospitals.   Source: Latest News

Business Report writes that the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) says it will not take part in labour federation Cosatu’s national decent work march on Friday.  The union said on Tuesday that, while it supported the need for decent work, it would save its “energy” for its own rolling mass...

BDLive reports that ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe on Monday said the party’s national executive committee (NEC) had called on the SABC’s board to review the decision to appoint Hlaudi Motsoeneng.  The ANC NEC also agreed on the need for a Parliamentary inquiry into the SABC board’s fitness to hold office‚ he...

BDLive writes that public hospitals will have 1,600 fewer doctors and the class of 2016 will miss out on graduation if the shutdown of universities continues.  This is the grim reality that came out of a failed fees imbizo in Kempton Park on Monday, where President Jacob Zuma made an opening...

EWN reports that the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) has called on the Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies, to review the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) or risk having the union’s poultry workers go on strike.  Fawu officials say employers in the poultry industry are considering...