Business Report writes that Wits researcher Gilad Isaacs maintains that, while a national minimum wage will not lead to massive economic growth in SA, it will dent the country’s soaring poverty rates.   Source: Latest News

ANA reports that two more bodies were recovered from the disused mine in Langlaagte on Tuesday by a group of illegal miners who entered the mine, despite pleas from Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane to not send “untrained” people underground.   Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that only a few of the South African employers who participated in the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey intend to employ more people in the fourth quarter of 2016.   Source: Latest News

Netwerk24 reports that the strike by bus drivers of the integrated transport network Go George is over.  According to the George municipality, all of the drivers undertook to be back at work on Monday and all routes were served.   Source: Latest News

News24 reports that the eight SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) journalists who were fired – seven of whom were later reinstated – for their opposition to the broadcaster’s policy to censor coverage of protests will continue with their Constitutional Court application.   Source: Latest News

TMG Digital/Sowetan reports that panellists at a SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) investigation of the socioeconomic challenges faced by mining-affected communities said that the burning issues affecting people living in mining areas have been simmering for years and discontent was growing.   Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has changed certain sections of the Magistrates’ Court Act (MC Act) dealing with emoluments attachment orders (EAOs) — commonly known as garnishee orders — to bring them in line with the Constitution.   Source: Latest News

Brendan Ryan reports that an invasion of more than one thousand illegal diamond miners – zama-zamas – in Kimberley in the Northern Cape is threatening the viability of London-listed Petra Diamonds (Petra) operations.   Source: Latest News

Inge Lamprecht writes that provident fund members have best of both worlds – saving for retirement in a tax shelter then being able to take 100% of savings as a cash lump sum on retirement.   Source: Latest News

ITWeb reports that Gupta family-owned Sahara Computers has put on hold job retrenchments that hit the company in June.  This comes after the ICT distributor last week reported revenue of R1.1 billion for the year ended 29 February.   Source: Latest News