eNCA reports that the SA Petroleum Industry Association says striking workers at refineries are causing petrol delivery delays by intimidating drivers.  It claims have been threatened, so they will drive to petrol stations only once they know it’s safe.   Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that former Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi will not be voting for the ANC for the first time since 1994.   Source: Latest News

ANA reports that Solidarity and the SA Police Service (SAPS) have reached a historic settlement that directly affects the promotion of more than 3,000 SAPS members, the trade union said on Sunday.   Source: Latest News

TimesLive reports that fuel shortages have been reported at petrol stations across the country – making nonsense of the assurances of industry spokesmen last week that motorists had nothing to worry about unless the strike were prolonged.   Source: Latest News

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ANA reports that the United National Transport Union (Untu) on Sunday urged the SA Police Service (SAPS) to re-establish the railway police as it existed before it was incorporated into the regular police in 1986.   Source: Latest News

City Press reports that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan promised on Tuesday that the controversial employment tax incentive (ETI), colloquially known as the ‘youth wage subsidy’, would be renewed next year.   Source: Latest News

Sunday Times reports that a probe into a new degrees-for-sale scam that has rocked the University of Zululand shows that more than 4,000 people may have paid for fake degrees there over the past 20 years.   Source: Latest News

Pretoria News reports that three judges of the High Court in Pretoria have said that for the City of Matlosana (Klerksdorp) to blame a librarian for being brutally raped while on duty at a community library was offensive, bizarre and deeply insensitive towards the woman.   Source: Latest News

EWN reports that the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) has confirmed the deaths of two miners in separate incidents at AngloGold Ashanti mines this week.   Source: Latest News