Today's Labour News
This news aggregator site highlights South African labour news from a wide range of internet and print sources. Each posting has a synopsis of the source article, together with a link or reference to the original. Postings cover the range of labour related matters from industrial relations to generalist human resources.
Last Update: 25-10-2025
SA Labour News
Passenger rail service gets back on track, but slowly
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GroundUp and The Outlier report that by 2021, the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) had collapsed. With corruption and mismanagement having taken hold over the previous ten years, the rail service became increasingly unreliable and unsafe.
Codeta’s interdict application against Western Cape’s taxi route closures postponed to Tuesday
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Cape Argus reports that the urgent interdict application by the Congress Organisation of the Democratic Taxi Association (Codeta) against the Western Cape Government's decision to close 10 taxi routes for a period of 30 days, was to have been heard in the Western Cape High Court on Friday.
Staff at government building have to carry buckets of water to flush toilets
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GroundUp reports that a government building housing several departments, including the Louis Trichardt Clinic, has been without a consistent water supply for two years.
Roundup on Monday, 29 September 2025 of weekend labour reports
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In our roundup of weekend and recent reports,
see the following summaries of our selection of
South African labour-related articles.
Acting head of Ekurhuleni metro cops takes special leave amid Madlanga Commission allegations
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News24 reports that the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) acting head, Julius Mkhwanazi, has applied for and been granted special leave. A metro spokesperson confirmed this on Thursday, but did not divulge why the top cop would be absent from work.