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
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Home affairs employee convicted of stealing IDs, creating fraudulent funeral policies to benefit herself
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SowetanLive reports that a Northern Cape Department of Home Affairs (DHA) official got into her employer's system, stole people's ID numbers, opened funeral policies, nominated herself as the beneficiary and then declared the owners of those IDs dead.
Somerset West taxi shutdown may be extended, says Western Cape Mobility MEC
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GroundUp reports that two weeks into the 30-day closure of taxi routes between Khayelitsha and Somerset West, still no agreement has been reached between rival taxi associations Cata (Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association) and Codeta (Cape Organisation for the Democratic Taxi Association).
Nehawu to march on Friday in Joburg against ‘crisis engulfing Gauteng Health’
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SABC News reports that hundreds of members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) in Gauteng are expected to march to the provincial Department of Health in Johannesburg on Friday to deliver a memorandum of demands.
Morning roundup of labour news on Friday, 3 October 2025
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Two former Gauteng education officials and accomplice face sentencing for R3.8m ghost employee fraud
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The Star reports that two former Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) employees and an accomplice, who defrauded the department of millions through a ghost employee scheme, were scheduled to appear for sentencing at the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday and Thursday.