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Moneyweb reports that Impala Platinum said it was offering voluntary job cuts to workers at some of the world’s deepest platinum mining shafts in South Africa in a bid to cut costs as prices for the metal fall. The Johannesburg-based platinum miner started the process at its head office last month, and is now extending […]
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Cape Argus writes that seven former employees dismissed some years after reaching their contractual retirement age of 60, but not on it, have turned to the Constitutional Court to challenge their former employers’ decision to rely on their age for grounds for dismissal. The apex court heard two applications for leave to appeal against decisions […]
Capricorn FM News writes that the South African Democratic Teachers Union in Limpopo says it welcomes with open hands the Medium-Term Budget Policy statement announced by minister Enoch Godongwana as it confirms that there will be funds allocated towards salaries of personnel in the health, education and police services. Godongwana says additional funding of R24 billion this […]
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SABC News reports that the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) General Secretary Jack Mazibuko says government needs to fix the rail infrastructure to make it possible to move the transportation of goods from road to rail. Mazibuko was speaking during an engagement between Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises and organised labour […]
EWN writes that the National Union of Mineworkers has given its members the go-ahead to return to work at the Gold One mine. This follows a gruelling three-day hostage drama at the Modder East operation. More than 500 mineworkers affiliated with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) failed to resurface at the end of their shift […]
TimesLive reports that the ambition of farmworker equity schemes, aimed at incorporating workers into farm businesses and socially uplifting them, has not been fulfilled. This is one of the findings by Corruption Watch in its report on the intersection of land corruption and discrimination. Corruption Watch said this year it interviewed 35 members of eight farm […]
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU) will hold a training workshop for school principals from special needs schools to focus particularly on the recent legislative amendments regarding sexual offences – Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and related Matters) Amendment Act of 2021 which came into operation on 31 July 2022. This legislation has, among others, […]
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SABC News reports that the families of the three Lily Mine workers who were trapped underground when the mine caved in, in 2016, are calling for criminal investigations to be instituted against the Lily Mine management. This after the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga handed down a judgment into the inquest of the Lily Mine disaster. […]
GroundUp reports that the Department of Health has averted a standoff with nurses in the public sector with a last-minute agreement to pay nurses a temporary allowance to buy uniforms. Nurses threatened to work in their own clothes if the department failed to provide them either with uniforms or with an allowance by 1 October. This plan […]
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Groundup writes that more than 600 teachers marched to the Durban City hall under the banner of the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) on Friday. They were protesting for better safety for teachers at schools. SADTU provincial secretary Nomarashiya Caluza said the provincial government must take responsibility for the state of the province’s schools. […]