According to Johan Botes, director in the employment practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr business law firm, an employer
may be able to fire an employee who has slagged off the company, or an individual or two, on some social media platform. However, employers might be on shaky ground if they demand from an employee, or an applicant for employment, their personal, private usernames and passwords.
So, employers need to be aware that
legislation protects employees against social media prying, and issues in that area need to be handled with great care.
Back in 2010, the DA awarded a tender to advertising agency TBWA/Hunt Lascaris to centralise communications. Questions were raised about the deal, and now Theunis Botha, leader of the Christian Democratic party, says
Western Cape premier Helen Zille must resign after the Public Protector Thuli Madonsela found the tender award to be provisionally invalid.
In a boost for manufacturing, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies will today be launching a
R5.8bn manufacturing competitiveness enhancement program (MCEP). The program is aimed at addressing the South African manufacturing industry's ability to compete against imports and against its competitors for other export markets.
Here are two trick questions for you: What have the BRICS members got in common? Answer: coastlines. Which is the odd man out? Answer: us - because we're the only member of BRICS that does
not have a merchant fleet.
In fact, we don't even have a single ship... not one... to carry our imports and exports - and it's
costing this country billions every year to use foreign-owned ships to carry goods to and from SA.
Henrie Geyser, our Obelix in the driver's seat, unleashes his inner Frenchman and waxes romantic over
the new Citroën DS5, which he reckons might have a little German influence and is the kind of car that demands a second look. And a third.
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South African airspace becomes cyberspace in a first for South Africa as Wireless G, together with Mango and Vodacom, bring you Wi-Fi in the sky. By using G-Connect In-Flight Wi-Fi, Mango guests can now surf the web when travelling between South Africa's major centres, at 30 000 feet. 
Measures to improve the flow of commuters at Pretoria's main Bosman train station would soon be implemented; an official said, following a stampede which left 18 people injured, Independent Online reports. 
Delays at border posts in southern Africa involving duplication of customs, migration, police, agriculture and health formalities are costing traders millions of dollars and are retarding the growth of intra-African trade significantly, an African Development Bank study has shown. 
While Sanral CEO Nazir Alli seems to have bowed under pressure from the Gauteng e-tolling crisis, his political leaders seem to shy away from all responsibility in the resultant chaos. 
The SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) board needs space and support after the resignation of its CEO Nazir Alli, the transport department said on Thursday. 
The Board of the South African National Road Agency SOC Limited (SANRAL) on Wednesday announced the appointment of Koos Smit as Acting Chief Executive of the agency. This follows the resignation yesterday of the agency's CEO, Nazir Alli. 
State-owned transport logistics company Transnet told parliament yesterday that its R300bn infrastructure programme would create more than 588 000 direct and indirect jobs. 
The Board of the South African National Road Agency Limited (Sanral) on Tuesday announced the resignation of its chief executive officer, Nazir Alli. 
For the second consecutive year, Ethiopian Airlines has won the 2011 Annual Airline Reliability Performance Award from the Bombardier Aerospace. Ethiopian achieved the highest overall dispatch reliability rating and placed first overall in the Q-400 product category for the Middle East and Africa region. 
