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The National Union of Mineworkers marched in Secunda today to demand recognition at Sasol Mining as the apparent majority union. It claims to have about 1,300 members out of a workforce of 2,200. The Chemical Energy Paper Printing Wood and Allied Workers ...
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Mail & Guardian has a three-page article on the Bapo Ba Mogale community which lives on platinum-rich deposits mined by Lonmin and other companies near Rustenburg. They have benefited little from Lonmin, unlike the Royal Bafokeng, who after a decade-l...
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The little town of Kathu, on the edge of the Sishen mine, is a boom town and so are the towns in the Northern Cape sending workers to SA’s largest iron-ore mine. Kumba Iron Ore, the owners of Sishen, paid more than 6,000 workers R500,000 each in Decembe...
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Mining company Xstrata Alloys has virtually taken over the provision of basic services to communities around Mashishing (previously Lydenburg) in Mpumalanga because the local municipality has failed to hire skilled staff. It has repaired water pipelines, ...
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A two-week strike at a Spar store in Thohoyandou, Limpopo, has ended after a wage agreement for a 7.5% salary increase was reached, the National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers has reported. This was the first collective agreement to have been ...
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At the conclusion of this week’s ANC policy conference, President Zuma said that a job seekers grant would open up the job market and, as part of the second phase of the transition, the party and its alliance partners needed to work together to create d...
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All tertiary students should be compelled do an internship in the service of the state after graduating, the ANC proposed at its policy conference this week. While not providing details, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande indicated that the service ...
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Cosatu in the Western Cape vowed on Friday to fight the province's plan to possibly close 27 under-performing schools. It called on MEC Donald Grant to be dismissed, saying he was an example of cadre deployment in the DA and was “incompetent and insensi...
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Public Service Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has called on state negotiators and unions to return to the bargaining council to resolve the public sector pay talks as soon as possible. She indicated that state negotiators were available to resume talks from Mond...
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The compensation of Stephen Koseff, CEO of financial services firm Investec, was cut by 87% for the 2012 fiscal year after profit dropped and returns hit a record low. Koseff, who asked not to receive a bonus, was paid £450,000, including a basic salary ...
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The ANC at its policy conference could not agree whether education should be seen as a essential service, education commission member Angie Motshekga reported today, but it was resolved that the process should continue to find a consensus around this matt...
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Solidarity says that, although the document on mining being discussed at this week’s ANC policy conference, does away with the notion of full-scale nationalisation, there are no grounds for resting easy. The proposed super tax still poses a threat and t...
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The SA Medical Association (SAMA) has called on the Eastern Cape Health Department to be cautious in dealing with the doctors who went public regarding a severe shortage of doctors in Port Elizabeth public hospitals. A SAMA spokesperson said: “Doctors a...
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Former unionist Richard Kawie and Trilinear director Sam Buthelezi appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court yesterday on charges of fraudulently taking up to R300m of clothing workers’ monies from Sactwu-administered funds. The state said more time ...
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The Eastern Cape health department has started disciplinary action against the three rebel Port Elizabeth specialist doctors who held an "unauthorised” media conference earlier this week to highlight massive staff shortages at the PE Hospital Complex. T...
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The Port Elizabeth Hospital Complex is to offer only emergency surgery due to a severe staff shortage. The complex includes Dora Nginza Hospital, Livingstone Hospital and the Port Elizabeth Provincial Hospital. The heads of units said in a statement thi...
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The Gauteng government yesterday launched a jobs portal in Sandton and also said it intended to create 8,000 jobs for young people. The social development department is to establish 20 job centres by the end of September 2012 and, in order to make them mo...
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Directors’ remuneration at Brikor decreased by 18% in the year to February, the financially distressed brick maker said yesterday. This was due to a reduced number of executive directors and CE Garnett Parkin sacrificing compensation for 12 months. Th...
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Employer body Apparel Manufacturers of SA (Amsa) has approached the Labour Court in Durban to compel the clothing industry bargaining council to shut down 400 non-compliant factories, thus threatening 21,000 jobs. This comes after Amsa failed to reach a ...
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The SA Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (Sactwu) reports that the Apparel Manufacturers Association has advised of its intention to end the 2011/2012 clothing industry wage agreement, which permitted a 30% lower entry wage rate for new workers. The u...
