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Cosatu will be celebrating May Day tomorrow under the theme ‘Celebrating Workers Contribution in the Struggle for Liberation’. There will be fifteen rallies organised across all provinces, with the national rally to be held in Bloemfontein and address...
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Field rangers at the Kruger National Park called off their two-month strike today, SA National Parks (SANParks) has reported. It will be meeting with the employees and or their representatives on Thursday in order to discuss issues that led to the strike....
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Some 6,536 police officers who failed firearm competency tests are to undergo urgent retraining. This follows the leaking of an internal report according to which 27,400 police officers were found not to be competent to use state-issued firearms. The SA P...
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Spur’s non-executive directors will receive a 40% increase in pay after a shareholder vote against its remuneration policy was reversed at a special general meeting held last Thursday. At its AGM on 2 December, 46% of its shareholders voted against the...
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A report about unemployed young men from Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Mozambique who are lured into SA by well organised criminal syndicates to illegally dig gold under dangerous conditions. It is estimated that illegal mining is costing the mining in...
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Cosatu in Limpopo has criticised the "meagre" payment of just more than R2-million to the Molekana clan for land dispossessed from them and on which Anglo American Platinum has a mining operation outside Mokopane in Limpopo. The department of rural develo...
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Cosatu says it will fight the proposed amendments to the Labour Relations Act with all its might as they involve numerous attacks on fundamental labour rights. It says the proposals are being justified as measures to combat violence during strikes, but b...
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Growing concerns about the use of risk-free share options in executive remuneration schemes are believed to be behind shareholders’ rejection of special resolution relating to the JSE Limited’s executive incentive scheme at last week’s annual genera...
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Only 37 of the 503 former Massmart employees who have to be reinstated in terms of a ruling by the Competition Appeal Court have so far responded to press adverts and letters sent out by Massmart. Two weeks ago personalised letters were, where possible, ...
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Brian Molefe, group CE of Transnet, writes about the important developmental role of state-owned companies (SOCs). He says the ultimate objective of SOCs must be to provide a public return on capital, which must be measured in more ways than just profit, ...
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The Commission for Employment Equity's annual report for 2011 shows that people with disabilities accounted for around 0.83% of the total SA workforce, falling far short of the required 2% target. One way for organisations to be able to reach this target ...
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Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi is reported to have come under severe criticism during the federation’s Central Committee meeting this past week. The meeting apparently deteriorated into personal, ugly invective between him and Nehawu’s Fikil...
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Cosatu will name no favourites for the ANC’s leadership elections in Mangaung in December, according to general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi. He says that circumstances are different to those in 2007 when the federation backed Jacob Zuma for president, al...
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Frans Baleni, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, faces strong opposition in his bid for re-election to his post at the union’s elective conference next month from his deputy, Oupa Komane. Each candidate has the support four of the e...
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The Sunday Independent reckons that, under pressure from Cosatu and the courts, the ANC is likely to scrap the beleaguered Gauteng e-tolling project. However, there is no consensus on an alternative freeway improvement funding model, with some in the part...
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This coming week Solidarity and the liquidators of Pamodzi Gold will proceed with plans to sue the directors of Aurora Empowerment in their personal capacities to recover monies owed to workers and others. The High Court is to be asked that all directors ...
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An interim interdict restraining the SA National Roads Agency from launching the Gauteng e-tolling system on Monday was granted by Judge Bill Prinsloo in the North Gauteng High Court today. The urgent interdict application was made by the Opposition to Ur...
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The Saturday Star today carries an informative two-page spread with a timeline on the ex-Aurora mineworkers at Grootvlei mine, who hope that they can find jobs again under the new owners, Gold One and Goliath Gold. Over 5,000 workers laid off in April 201...
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Cosatu provided information yesterday on its special Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting held earlier this week, which discussed e-tolling, labour law amendments, the federation’s relations with its alliance partners and May Day celebrations. The ...
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The Democratic Alliance’s Edmund Van Vuuren met with a Port Elizabeth investigating officer on Tuesday to take further the party’s earlier charges of attempted murder and reckless driving against Honjiswa Mrwebi, SA Democratic Teachers’ Union Hewu b...
