According to Consumer Price Index (CPI) data released by Statistics SA on Wednesday, consumer inflation accelerated to 6.3% year-on-year in June, up from 6.1% in May 2016.   Source: Latest News

The Witness reports that two former employees were found guilty yesterday of strangling Verulam businessman Govindaraju Chinnian to death in a storage container on 3 May and then dumping heavy bags of cement on his body.   Source: Latest News

News24 reports that Nelson Mandela Metro residents on Tuesday suggested that prostitutes should be given a “work station” so as to avoid naked prostitutes ‘putting their bits on display’ around St George’s Strand.   Source: Latest News

TMG Digital reports that the fund set up to assist the “brave South African journalists who lost their jobs for standing up for media freedom” stood at almost R280,000 on Wednesday morning.   Source: Latest News

EWN reports that the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has challenged government to better train community healthcare workers and create permanent jobs for them.   Source: Latest News

City Press reports that an enormous accumulated surplus of R99 billion is lying unused in the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF).   Source: Latest News

ANA reports that Solidarity and the Broadcasting, Electronic, Media, and Allied Workers’ Union (Bemawu) are each set to square off against the SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in the Labour Court over dismissals of their members.   Source: Latest News

The New Age writes that fund managers are being blamed for the tardy payout of pension benefits to retired workers and their relatives, leading to an unclaimed pension pot of R20bn.   Source: Latest News

Business Report writes that a strike in the retail motor industry has moved a step closer after the failure of a dispute resolution meeting held last week.   Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) is set to cut ties with labour federation Cosatu at the former’s national conference in August.   Source: Latest News