Bloomberg reports that Shoprite Holdings doubled CEO Whitey Basson’s pay last fiscal year to R100.1 million, thanks to a bonus for beating a profit-growth target.  His remuneration included R49.7 million in basic pay for the 12 months through June, in line with the previous year, and a R50 million one-time performance-related...

In our Monday roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that have appeared since midday on Friday, 30 September 2016. Source: Latest News

IOL News writes that Hlaudi Motsoeneng could be fired by the SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) by the end of this week after a meeting of Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications.  The committee took strong exception on Friday to the SABC board’s defiance of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment and...

Sunday Independent writes that it has become abundantly clear that Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane will not be paying the monetary windfall he promised the disaster victims at Lily Mine on 5 February.  Nothing has been paid so far as the minister seems to have dumped the hot potato in the...

TMG Digital reports that the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) says it will oppose plans by the City of Tshwane to terminate workers’ contracts.  The union claimed Democratic Alliance (DA) mayors had received directives from the party’s federal executive to trim administrative staff and that these “anti-worker” plans “will leave thousands...

Cape Times reports that in a David and Goliath-like legal battle, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has repealed the eviction proceedings against a Citrusdal farmworker after finding the eviction notices by his employers, Mgro Properties, were invalid.  The SCA upheld Abraham Snyers’ leave to appeal, with costs, after a Land...

News24 reports that former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng wrote on Sunday in an open letter hitting out at his detractors some politicians have “not bothered to read or understand” court rulings against him and have undermined these through “legally suspect interpretation”.  Motsoeneng said “fair-minded observers” would know that no court had...

TechCentral reports that MTN South Africa has named Adcorp subsidiary Rightsource as the preferred partner to manage its outsourced “hybrid” call centres.  The outsourcing had earlier raised the ire of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which in August had sought an urgent court interdict to stop it from going ahead.  The union...

BDLive reports that the Independent Police Investigative Directorate’s (Ipid’s) ability to keep the police in check, and the watchdog’s independence, are being stifled because of a staff shortage and a lack of investigating capacity, auditor-general Kimi Makwetu has warned.  The warning comes at a time when cases of alleged police misconduct...

Cosatu president Sdumo Dlamini seems set on a collision course with the majority of the labour federation’s member unions over the issue of who should succeed President Jacob Zuma.  Dlamini has thus far projected himself as a nonpartisan player, though there is an expectation that he will steer Cosatu towards supporting...