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BusinessLive reports that as SA emerges from its third wave of coronavirus infections, cabinet has agreed to further ease lockdown restrictions and move the country from adjusted alert level 2 to level 1. Source: Latest News
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Man claims he was mocked about bleeding eye injury at factory accused of having violating labour laws
News24 reports that a witness who testified against seven Chinese nationals accused of human trafficking and violating labour laws was accused by the defence on Thursday of being told what to say in court. Source: Latest News
Senior Eastern Cape education official, her husband and brother in court for R4m PPE fraud
News24 reports that the Hawks (Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation) arrested a senior Eastern Cape education official after she was reported to the police by her sister for allegedly defrauding the department of R4 million. Source: Latest News
Six more health officials put on precautionary suspension over Digital Vibes scandal
BL Premium reports that health minister Joe Phaahla announced on Thursday morning that six health department officials implicated in the Special Investigation Unit’s (SIU’s) investigation into the Digital Vibes scandal were to be placed on precautionary suspension. Source: Latest News
Thousands of jobs vacant in SA's IT sector, survey finds
Fin24 reports that thousands of jobs must be filled in South Africa’s IT sector, according to a new skills survey. The 2021 ICT Skills Survey assessed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown on working conditions and skills supply and demand in SA. Source: Latest News
Minister Ebrahim Patel says shareholders, not the government, will set executive pay
BL Premium reports that trade, industry & competition minister Ebrahim Patel said on Wednesday that the government was not seeking to prescribe the salary structures of executives in public companies. Source: Latest News
Rival unions unite in dispute with Sibanye-Stillwater over wage increases
Bloomberg reports that SA’s long-divided mining unions are forging a united front against the industry’s largest employer with a dispute over wage negotiations with Sibanye-Stillwater. Source: Latest News
Principal of Soweto school accused of ’sex for jobs’ chased away by community
The Star reports that the principal of Soweto’s Adelaide Tambo School for learners with special needs has been chased away from the school after he was accused of exchanging jobs for sex. Source: Latest News
Momentum Metropolitan Health signs BEE deal with Nehawu and Popcru
BL Premium reports that the Momentum Metropolitan Health Group has announced a BBBEE deal that brings in the investment arms of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) and the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) as shareholders in the business. Source: Latest News
Health department starts disciplinary process against staff named in report on Digital Vibes scandal
BL Premium reports that the Department of Health (DOH) has initiated disciplinary proceedings against officials implicated in the hard-hitting report by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) into the Digital Vibes corruption scandal, in which R150m was funnelled to an obscure communications company run by close associates of former health minister...