BDLive reports that Ubank, a small retail bank primarily focused on providing financial services for mine workers, will require R152m for recapitalisation within two years to keep its banking licence.   Source: Latest News

News24 reports that a paramedic died and several people were injured in a multiple car pile-up in Midrand, Gauteng, on Sunday.   Source: Latest News

City Press reports that the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) has promised to challenge the Competition Commission’s (CC’s) conditional approval of the merger between Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) and SABMiller.  Source: Latest News

ANA reports that an active National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) member working for Northam Platinum mine in Limpopo was shot dead on Sunday.   Source: Latest News

Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Saturday, 4 June and Sunday, 5 June 2016 Source: Latest News

Mining Weekly reports that Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) Minister Mosebenzi Zwane said on Friday that the number of fatalities at mines in South Africa this year was at risk of surpassing the 77 mineworkers’ deaths recorded in 2015.   Source: Latest News

HeraldLive reports that Nelson Mandela Bay Metro (NMBM) has clinched two new call centre investments, which are set to bring more than R100m to the municipality and create a combined 857 jobs.   Source: Latest News

DispatchLive reports that labour inspectors say they will continue with lunchtime pickets at the East London office of the Department of Labour until their demands are met.   Source: Latest News

Reuters reports that an internal National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) document indicates that the union will demand a wage increase of 20% per year for the next two years in upcoming talks with Anglo American Platinum (Amplats).   Source: Latest News

Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Friday, 3 June 2016 Source: Latest News