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: 03-03-2021
SA Labour News
Sassa officials and 17 others in court for disability grant fraud amounting to over R300,000
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SowetanLive reports that the Hawks have dismantled one of the biggest disability grant fraud and corruption syndicates to hit the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) after the arrest of officials and undeserving beneficiaries in Limpopo.
Netcare helicopter crash on 21 January was ’not survivable’, Sacaa preliminary report concludes
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Sunday Tribune reports that the SA Civil Aviation Authority (Sacaa) released its preliminary accident report last week on the helicopter crash that claimed the lives of a medical team on a “mercy mission” and the pilot, in Winterton, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN).
Hawks to investigate shooting of two Cape Town police officers on Sunday
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News24 reports that National Police Commissioner General Khehla Sitole has condemned the murder of two officers who were attacked while patrolling in a Cape Town suburb.
Roundup on Monday, 1 March 2021 of weekend labour reports
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In our roundup of weekend news, see
summaries of our selection of South African
labour-related stories that appeared since
Friday, 26 February 2021.
Eleven arrested after vehicles, buildings torched at Palabora copper mine in Limpopo
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News24 reports that Limpopo police arrested 11 people after protests outside the Palabora copper mine in Phalaborwa turned violent and properties were set alight.