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
Labour department opposes its sidelining by Home Affairs on general work visa decisions
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BL Premium reports that the Department of Employment & Labour (DEL) is pushing back against the expedited processing of general work visa applications for foreign workers by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA), which it says sidelines it from upfront decision-making.
Government orders physical roll call of more than one million civil servants
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News24 reports that the government has embarked on a drive to physically verify over a million national and provincial public service employees by the end of February.
Morning roundup of labour news on Wednesday, 22 October 2025
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In our Wednesday morning roundup, see
summaries of our selection of recent South
African labour-related reports.
Popcru challenges GEPF over pension cuts despite assurance that ‘no money has been stolen'
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IOL Business reports that the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) has raised alarm over "unexplained" cuts to members’ pensions and has called for urgent answers from the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF).
Professionals fighting corruption fear assassination following 13 murders in two years
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Bloomberg reports that last month two assassins made an appointment to see bankruptcy lawyer Bouwer van Niekerk and, after he had identified himself, they shot him dead in the boardroom of his firm’s offices in Johannesburg. Van Niekerk’s brazen murder is part of a growing trend in SA in which professionals instrumental in fighting corruption are targeted by hit-men.