Netwerk24 writes that it was reported by Dr Dirk Hermann, chief executive of trade union Solidarity, on Wednesday that the South African government will have to give feedback to the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) about the impact of affirmative action in South Africa. Source:...
ANA reports that KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) premier Willies Mchunu said on Wednesday that government’s programmes to improve the lives of the province’s poor were not faulty, but the issue was the implementation. Source: Latest News
News24 reports that the Treatment Action Campaign and Section27 have called on President Jacob Zuma to intervene in Free State where a hospital strike over overtime pay at one hospital has led to overcrowding at various surrounding hospitals. Source: Latest News
ANA reports that a doctor who is alleged to have defrauded the Department of Labour’s Compensation Fund of almost R400,000, pleaded not guilty in the Pretoria Magistrate’s court on Wednesday. Source: Latest News
The Citizen reports that while more than 250 employees of a manganese mine in the Northern Cape have not been paid their salaries for the past five months, the mine’s owner is earning millions. Source: Latest News
HeraldLive reports that the municipal refuse workers’ strike in Nelson Mandela Bay intensified on Wednesday as angry staff toppled over dustbins and damaged public infrastructure in Port Elizabeth’s CBD. Source: Latest News
ANA reports that a man was serious injured after a wall he was demolishing with a sledgehammer fell on his legs on Wednesday in Newlands, Johannesburg. Source: Latest News
JacarandaFM reports that the Democratic Nursing Association of SA (Denosa) has suggested the Department of Health knows why there’s been an exodus of nurses in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). Source: Latest News
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Wednesday, 14 September 2016 Source: Latest News
In our Wednesday roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that have appeared since midday on Tuesday, 13 September 2016. Source: Latest News
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