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: 27-10-2025
SA Labour News
Polokwane’s buses missing and more than R16m down the drain, but no consequence management
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City Press reports that six years after spending more than R16 million of taxpayers’ money to acquire 10 buses for the city’s rapid transit system, Polokwane local municipality in Limpopo has not received the vehicles.
PSA condemns clash at Oudtshoorn prison in which one inmate died and four officials were injured
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TimesLIVE reports that the Public Servants Association (PSA) has condemned the violent incident at Oudtshoorn prison last week that resulted in the death of an inmate and left four correctional services officials injured.
Two Cape Town cops arrested for allegedly selling blank affidavit forms for R100 each
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News24 reports that two Cape Town police officers have been arrested for corruption, after allegedly selling blank affidavit forms to the public.
Bellville man’s fake bomb threats so that he could to skip work earn him real jail time
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The Citizen reports that a 50-year-old Bellville man who made hoax bomb threats to police has been sentenced to five years’ direct imprisonment.
Morning roundup of labour news on Tuesday, 12 August 2025
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African labour-related reports.