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Aquarius Platinum has joined a chorus of warnings from the platinum sector that a drive to cut accidents was leading to lengthier and more damaging halts to mine production. The pressurised sector has been increasingly vocal about regulatory pressures, pa...
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The SA Transport and Allied Workers' Union (Satawu) has called for the suspension of Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) group CEO Lucky Montana over alleged tender irregularities. President Ephraim Mphahlele said today: "We want an independent forensic i...
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SA Democratic Teachers’ Union’s branches are to decide whether teachers in the Eastern Cape will suspend or intensify the go-slow that has been disrupting schooling in the province. This comes after the union was persuaded to continue to e...
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Nine farm workers were killed when the truck they were travelling on crashed into a construction vehicle on a bridge between Saron and Gouda yesterday. More than 40 workers were injured. The construction vehicle driver has been arrested and charged...
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With thousands of workers failing to turn up for work at Impala Platinum’s Rustenburg operations, the company says it cannot directly engage the union responsible for encouraging the stayaway, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU)...
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A farm worker was killed when his tractor overturned near Howick in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday afternoon. The man, believed to be in his 50s suffered traumatic and fatal injuries. The tractor may have had some mechanical problem, which caused the driver to l...
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The Dr JS Moroka municipality in Mpumalanga will hold an urgent council meeting this week to decide what to do to comply with a 2010 court order to pay a former clerk R1.3m in damages for failing to prevent her being sexually harassed by former municipal ...
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Ivor Chipkin of the Public Affairs Research Institute says that affirmative action and the lack of appropriate skills are not the real culprits in the failure of government departments to deliver on their mandates. Rather, the volatility among staff in th...
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Metrorail has been granted an interim interdict against 367 ex-contract workers to prevent them from vandalising or sabotaging its property after disruptions in commuter services in the Cape last week. The disaffected workers had been employed by private ...
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Shareholder activist Theo Botha has accused Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) of using retention payments and restraint of trade payments to bump up directors’ pay in a year when profit performance should have seen a reduction in total remuneration package...
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The Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) reports that the Department of Labour has announced new minimum wages for the farm sector, which will be valid from March 2012 until February 2014. Farm workers will now receive R1,503.90 per month, R374,10 per we...
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The offer by former Deputy Economic Development Minister Enoch Godongwana to pay back some of the clothing workers’ pension money he received from the Canyon Springs collapse was not enough and he should be held accountable, says the Democratic Alliance...
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Former trade unionist Richard Kawie, who has been accused of facilitating an unsecured R100m loan of clothing workers’ pension fund money to a company that has now been liquidated, claimed to be too ill to give evidence at the Canyon Springs insolvency ...
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We live in a world of extreme riches and extreme poverty, and SA has the highest level of inequality in the world, says the chairperson of the Bench Marks Foundation, Bishop Jo Seoka. Speaking at the launch of the Bench Marks Centre for Corporate Social R...
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South Africa stands to lose scarce skilled resources to other African countries as massive foreign direct investment projects get underway on the African continent, according to Landelahni Recruitment Group. CEO Sandra Burmeister says SA needs to produce ...
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Trade union Uasa has welcomed the Department of Mineral Resources’ (DMR’s) setting up of a task team to investigate work stoppage notices at mines. Spokesperson Franz Stehring says the intervention is long overdue and that the application of the appli...
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Platinum miner Impala Platinum said on Monday its Rustenburg operations remained shut after the majority of workers staging an illegal strike over wages failed to return to work. The failure of the workforce to report for work this morning is said to be ...
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Public violence charges against 41 Cape Town protesters have been withdrawn following their arrest on Friday, when police dispersed an unsanctioned "summit" on Rondebosch Common held to protest about land, jobs, housing and other issues pertinent to Cape ...
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The National Union of Mineworkers celebrated its 30th anniversary on Sunday with a promise to enhance its fight for safer work environments and transformation in the mining industry. Speaking at a ceremony in Klerksdorp, general secretary Frans Baleni sai...
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An employee has died as Harmony Gold's West shaft next to Bambanani mine in the Free State. The accident occurred on Sunday during scheduled maintenance on the West shaft headgear.
This report is at Business Report
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