# Minister of Employment and Labour, Nomakhosazana Meth says the National Economic Development and Labour Council must deliver clarity and renewed resolve on the crisis of high unemployment. Meth was speaking during the opening of the NEDLAC Summit in Sandton, Johannesburg. The minister says the unemployment rate climbed to 33.2-percent in the second quarter of this year, up from 32.9-percent, underscoring persistent […]
# Tourism minister Patricia de Lille is facing legal action from four former South African Tourism Board members after she dissolved the board, citing irregularities and alleged financial mismanagement. De Lille has since appeared before Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Tourism to account on her decision after appointing six interim members to oversee the entity until […]
# Civil rights group AfriForum is calling for a national investigation into police involvement in stock theft. This follows the arrest of Constable Siyabonga Cindi from Standerton’s stock theft unit, accused of stealing cattle worth 450-thousand-rand. AfriForum cited previous convictions and arrests of police officials linked to livestock theft. The group’s Jacques Broodryk warns that […]
# The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa says the 30-percent US import tariff is worsening pressure on South Africa’s struggling steel sector. Speaking at the Rand Mutual Assurance Prevention Conference in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, marketing executive Nuraan Alli said production fell by 1.4-percent last year, reversing 2023’s gains. She warned that the tariff […]
# Die vakbondfederasie Saftu is woedend oor die toenemende werksverliese wat elke sektor van die land se ekonomie verwoes. ArcellorMittal SA sluit teen die einde van September wat tot drie-duisend-500 werksverliese sal lei. Die Ford Motor-maatskappy in Suid-Afrika gaan 474 mense aflê by sy aanlegte in Pretoria en Gqeberha. Saftu-woordvoerder, Asive Dyani, sê die werksverliese word […]
# The South African Federation of Trade Unions says it is outraged at the escalating jobs bloodbath, devastating every sector of the country’s economy. ArcellorMittal SA is set to shut down by the end of September, resulting in three-thousand-500 job losses. Ford Motor Company SA also plans to cut 474 jobs at its plants in Pretoria […]
# Die SA Toerisme-raadslede wat ontslaan is het ‘n dringende aansoek in die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria ingedien om die besluit van die minister van Toerisme, Patricia de Lille om die raad te ontbind, tersyde te stel. Die minister het haar besluit verdedig en onwettige gedrag, prosedurele oortredings en roekelose finansiële bestuur as gronde aangevoer. In […]
# The ousted SA Tourism board members have filed an urgent application in the High Court in Pretoria to overturn Tourism minister Patricia de Lille’s decision to dissolve the structure. The minister has defended her decision to dissolve the board, citing unlawful conduct, procedural violations, and reckless financial management as grounds for intervention. In their court […]
# Adjunkpresident Paul Mashatile lewer vandag ‘n virtuele hoofrede by die Nasionale Ekonomiese Ontwikkelings- en Arbeidsraad, Nedlac se 30ste Jaarlikse Spitsberaad in Sandton. Die spitsberaad fokus op die bevordering van solidariteit, gelykheid en volhoubaarheid in die ekonomie en op die arbeidsmark. Sake-, arbeids-, gemeenskaps- en regeringsvennote sal kyk na werkersolidariteit, geslags- en rassegelykheid, en klimaatsvolhoubaarheid […]
