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TimesLive reports that police have beefed up a task team investigating a series of murders in the Limpopo town of Northam, which are suspected to be linked to rivalry between two mining unions. Source: Latest News
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Cosatu to strike on Wednesday for better Cape Town transport
BDLive reports that more than 200,000 members of labour federation Cosatu in the Western Cape are due to go on a strike on Wednesday to demand improved rail and bus services in Cape Town. Source: Latest News
Web links to selected labour news reports posted on 20 June 2016
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Monday, 20 June 2016 Source: Latest News
Roundup of labour news on 20 June 2016
In our Monday roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that have appeared since midday on Friday, 17 June 2016. Source: Latest News
Asylum seekers flock to SA even as country battles unemployment
Fin24 reports that, in the midst of staggeringly high unemployment figures, South Africa hosted more asylum seekers than any other country in the world at the end of 2015. This is according to a report by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Source: Latest News
Crunch time as Zuma faces joblessness ‘time bomb’
TimesLive writes that the government has gone into overdrive to avert the explosion of an unemployment “time bomb”. President Jacob Zuma will meet with government leaders, officials and unionists on Tuesday to discuss the state of the economy, including remorselessly increasing youth unemployment. Source: Latest News
Lily Mine awaits R171m injection
City Press reports that Lily gold mine in Mpumalanga is still waiting for a deposit of a R171.8 million investment from a Canadian company. Source: Latest News
Fatality at Harmony Gold’s Phakisa mine in Welkom
ANA reports that Harmony Gold Mining on Monday announced that an employee had died in a mine accident underground at its Welkom operation in the Free State over the weekend. Source: Latest News
Research data confirm SA is a world leader in labour instability
BDLive reports that University of Johannesburg (UJ) research has shown that labour issues accounted for almost half of all public protests recorded by the police between 1997 and 2013, while the number of protests characterised as disorderly had steadily risen. Source: Latest News
'Communists killed Cosatu', writes Patrick Craven in his new book
City Press writes that it his new book, The Battle for Cosatu: An Insider’s View, Patrick Craven gives an ‘insider’s view’ of the infighting in labour federation Cosatu and the determination to get rid of its former general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi. Source: Latest News