EWN reported on Friday that negotiations were still underway between striking Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company (TMACC) workers and management.   Source: Latest News

In our Friday roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that have appeared since midday on Thursday, 29 September 2016. Source: Latest News

Twelve singers who were dismissed from or stopped working with the Cape Town Opera (CTO) last month because of a feud over contracts filed a statement of opposition with the Labour Court on Wednesday in response to the company’s initial claim against them.   Source: Latest News

Cape Argus reports that initial public response to the City of Cape Town council’s plans to address traffic congestion through a new traffic demand management strategy has largely been positive.   Source: Latest News

David McKay writes that one interesting development to come out of the latest illegal mining disaster in which miners (‘zama-zamas’) were killed at Langlaaate has been the suggestion by Cosatu that the government decriminalise the activity.   Source: Latest News

Sungula Nkabinde reports that the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) hearing on the underlying socio-economic challenges of mining-affected communities heard more evidence of Social and Labour Plans (SLPs) that have failed to benefit the people for which they are supposedly intended.   Source: Latest News

Pretoria News reports that that the SA poultry industry is set to lose thousands of jobs by the end of the year, brought on mainly by an oversupply of chicken imports flooding the market.   Source: Latest News

Business Report writes that according to Cosatu, directors of companies involved in cartel conduct should be prosecuted because fines imposed on the companies did not deter antitrust behaviour.   Source: Latest News

Sowetan reports that a facility in Limpopo that provides treatment for extreme cases of drug resistant Tuberculosis (TB) has been temporarily shut down after the provincial health department suspended over 30 nurses working there.   Source: Latest News

ANA reports that the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Thursday that Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s salary at the SABC was increased by almost half a million rand, from R3.7 million to R4.1 million, during the 2015/16 financial year.   Source: Latest News