Protocol to ensure safety on construction sites
The Construction Management Foundation (CMF) welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa’s reopening of all construction and infrastructure works under Alert Level 3 on the Risk Adjusted Strategy that will...
View ArticleLeasehold Programme can contribute to smallholder agricultural development...
The Leasehold Programme – a collaborative partnership between the Jobs Fund, communities and sugar miller Tongaat Hulett – is expected to be able to support agricultural development of smallholder...
View ArticleDepartment commends UIF's efforts
The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) is continuing to make a difference to the lives of many people in South Africa, with timely cash injections, despite the pandemic continuing to impact on many...
View ArticlePaediatric experts say kids are at low risk of contracting, spreading Covid-19
Paediatric experts, who serve on an advisory subcommittee to the Department of Basic Education, on May 29 discussed the risks for schoolgoing children to contract and spread Covid-19. A virtual seminar...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Employees can refuse to return to work if they feel unsafe –...
Employees have a right to refuse to return to work next month if they have a "reasonable belief" their employers have not put in place required precautions against the spread of Covid-19 in the...
View ArticleNPA gets two new deputy national directors
President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Advocates Ouma Rasethaba and Rodney de Kock as Deputy National Directors of Public Prosecutions with effect from June 1. Advocate Mthunzi Mhaga has also been...
View ArticleBowmans into Malawi, Zambia amid pandemic
Law firm Bowmans has expanded its services to Malawi and Zambia despite the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic that is crippling the world economy. The announcement comes less than a year after it...
View ArticleUnited Steel condemns unnecessary protest at old Metso steel mill
International metals and minerals company United Steel, a division of United Heavy Industries, has disassociated itself from allegations that jobs are up for sale at its steel mill, and condemned the...
View ArticleSA banks ready to assist distressed businesses amid Covid-19 pandemic
Global law firm DLA Piper, which has advised the Banking Association South Africa and South Africa’s biggest banks on the country’s loan guarantee scheme, has announced that the banks are ready to...
View ArticleSAHRC keeps close eye on fair school opening practices
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) plans to approach the High Court to interdict the Western Cape Education Department from continuing with teaching this week. This follows after schools...
View ArticleCovid-19 hampers Wits platinum recycling laboratory
The prevailing Covid-19 pandemic has brought research and innovations into recycling platinum-group metals (PGMs) from disused catalytic converts, led by two University of Witwatersrand (Wits) MSc...
View ArticleGauteng claims majority of UIF Covid-19 benefit
Of the R16.5-billion disbursed by the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) as part of the Covid-19 temporary employer/employee relief scheme (TERS) benefits payment, almost half has gone to Gauteng,...
View ArticleWEF, Prince of Wales launch Great Reset initiative to drive global change
With the Covid-19 pandemic having exposed various existing societal fault lines and laid bare a fundamental lack of social cohesion, fairness, inclusion and equality, the World Economic Forum (WEF) on...
View ArticleSolidarity issues letter of demand to stop pension funds going to Eskom
With a letter of demand addressed to the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) and the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), labour union Solidarity instituted legal steps to stop the exchange of...
View ArticleAssociation prepares for life after crisis
Despite the debilitating effects of Covid-19 on the local economy, the South African Paint Manufacturing Association (Sapma) is using this opportunity to redevelop and implement improved measures of...
View ArticleConcrete batchers training in the works
The Concrete Institute’s (TCI’s) School of Concrete Technology is planning to offer a special one-day course for concrete batchers and batch plant staff in the second half of 2020.
View ArticleBonang Mohale assumes new role as chancellor at UFS
Professor Bonang Mohale has officially assumed the role as the new chancellor of the University of the Free State (UFS). The announcement was made at a special meeting of the UFS council on March 20.
View ArticleDigital hub to develop IT, animation, gaming skills in Tshwane
Nonprofit organisation AfricaBeyond4IR's (AB4IR's) Digital Hub is hosting a series of webinars to develop animation, gaming and programme development skills among the youth and entrepreneurs in...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs facing significant challenges amid Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified South Africa’s economic challenges, with entrepreneurial businesses being more susceptible to succumb to a depressed trading environment, a new report published on...
View ArticleSolidarity opposes retrenchments at Agricultural Research Council
Trade union Solidarity is in talks with the Agricultural Research Council (Arc) about the best possible solution around the council’s impending retrenchments, which the union believes could pose a...
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