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SA car makers fail to meet local, export sales goals

Nick Hedley 9 Jan 2014

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Linda Ensor 27 Dec 2013

A row is brewing after a cashier at Marks & Spencer refused to handle pork or alcohol when serving a customer. Image: Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer's row over Muslim refusal to sell alcohol

24 Dec 2013

Do collective agreements with majority trade unions bind minority trade unions?

Do collective agreements with majority trade unions bind minority trade unions?

Jacques van Wyk and Andre van Heerden 19 Dec 2013

Primedia mulls legal option over departure

Primedia mulls legal option over departure

Paul Vecchiatto 11 Dec 2013

Pension Funds Adjudicator, Muvhango Lukhaimane

PFA orders employer to pay pension

10 Dec 2013

The Labour Centre at 145 Commissioner Street, Johannesburg has been closed. Image:

Labour Department 'breaking own rules'

Zoë Mahopo 10 Dec 2013

Strikes among component manufacturers and car carriers hurt SA's domestic and export markets and resulted in BMW losing out on a lucrative new manufacturing deal. Image: BMW

Vehicle exports sales down 4.8% says Naamsa

3 Dec 2013

Court outlaws racial quotas in Renate Barnard case

Court outlaws racial quotas in Renate Barnard case

Carol Paton 2 Dec 2013

SABC: COO battle resolved soon? DA wants open meeting on broadcaster

SABC: COO battle resolved soon? DA wants open meeting on broadcaster

26 Nov 2013

Numsa president Cedric Gina has quit. Image:

Numsa's president quits

26 Nov 2013

Codes Interpreter gives insight into B-BBEE

Codes Interpreter gives insight into B-BBEE

25 Nov 2013

Economists predict GDP will fall below 2% for the year. Image: Fotolia

Motor industry strike blamed for dragging down growth

25 Nov 2013

Domestic workers in A Areas such as urban areas on the Cape Peninsula, and Pretoria, Durban and in B Areas, will be on a new pay rate from 1 December. (Image: NASA, via Wikimedia Commons)

Domestic workers set for wage increase

22 Nov 2013

Helen Zille says the DA will never support racial quotas in employment. Image: DA

Equity quotas Verwoerdian says Zille

Emsie Ferreira 18 Nov 2013

Business warns of red tape burden of gender bill

Business warns of red tape burden of gender bill

Ntsakisi Maswanganyi 12 Nov 2013

Mauricio Leyva says SAB will build closer ties with Fawu.Image: SABMiller

SAB strike ends as Fawu accepts wage offer

6 Nov 2013

Irvin Jim is adamant that government should not have skipped the Nedlac processes. Image: Numsa

Numsa may challenge youth jobs support bill

Natasha Marrian 6 Nov 2013

Adoption of Employment Tax Incentive Bill welcomed

Adoption of Employment Tax Incentive Bill welcomed

5 Nov 2013

Violent protests hamper fight against crime: Radebe

Violent protests hamper fight against crime: Radebe

4 Nov 2013

Car sales dropped in October. Image: Idea go

Vehicle sales down 2.9% to 56‚927 y/y in October

4 Nov 2013

Seardel's chief executive Stuart Queen. Image: Seardel

Union to buy apparel business

Marc Hasenfuss 1 Nov 2013

Looting condemned by government after violent Cape Town protest. Image:

Government condemnation of protestors' behaviour

1 Nov 2013

Fundamental changes to SA's BBBEE framework

Fundamental changes to SA's BBBEE framework

Pieter Steyn 31 Oct 2013

Is there an obligation on black-owned businesses to transform?

Is there an obligation on black-owned businesses to transform?

Olga Meshoe 30 Oct 2013

Pravin Gordhan. Image: GCIS

Gordhan tables youth subsidy bill

28 Oct 2013

Zwelinzima Vavi Image: Cosatu

SARS won't comment on Vavi's tax affairs

25 Oct 2013

Sdumo Dlamini. Image: Cosatu

Cosatu boss slams Zuma over e-tolls

Hlengiwe Nhlabathi 24 Oct 2013

Subsidies will improve employment levels. Image:Gualberto107

Parliament to decide on youth subsidy bill

23 Oct 2013

Godfrey Oliphant. Image: Mineral Resources

Public sector workers face 'big changes'

Karl Gernetzky 23 Oct 2013

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