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Video: White Grape Farmer Helps Farm Workers Destroy Once Prosperous Grape Farm With BBBEE – Communism Consumes The Golden Goose!

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SOUR GRAPES: A prime grape farm that once produced 30,000 – 40,000 boxes of export grapes, now lies in total ruins after the owner, Pieter Naude of the Denau Farm in De Doorns, gave the prime grape farm Alpha, away to 250 of his workers in a workers trust (communist collective farm) back in 2010. Mr Naude then also trained 2 managers for the farm and for the first 5 years, Mr Naude’s business also did Alpha farm’s books. What was this farmer thinking? Did he really believe that communism can work, or was it just pure greed, because The Western Cape provincial government carried the entire running costs of Alpha farm for the first 2 years. That is R 2 million that they got for free, but as we should know by now, all the free stuff communists promise you, is never really free and comes with very harsh strings attached!

The managers of the workers trust / communist collective farm – as can be expected, started to pay out too much
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VIDEO: White Cross in Memory of Murdered Farmers Burnt (Necklaced) & Called a “Hate Sign” by Radical MadibengFM Presenter!

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MadibengFM Nick Motloung desecrates white cross

#TurningWhiteIntoBlack – The desecrater of the white cross memorial for Farm Murders was identified in the video as extremist Madibeng FM 105.3FM presenter Nick Motloung. Knowing black people can do no wrong in SA, he even callously confirmed his actions to local newspaper Kormorant, admitting that it was him who set the white wooden cross, which was erected to honor people murdered on farms, alight on the R511 in Brits by putting a burning tyre on it. The tyre was used deliberately, not only as it was the weapon of choice for Winnie Mandela, to burn black people alive who do not become extremists too, but also, as was mentioned in the video, to turn the white cross black!

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According to experts, Telkom has approximately 4,500 excess staff who are believed to have a direct impact on the profitability of the entity

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The government as Telkom’s largest shareholder has called for an urgent meeting to discuss the company’s plan for retrenching thousands of redundant workers.

Earlier last week, Telkom announced its intention to lay off about 3,000 workers, which is a fifth of its total workforce.

The Department of Communications and Digital Technology has announced that Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has expressed her concern about Telkom’s intention, and therefore wants to hold an urgent meeting.

Telkom’s shares rose 8% last week after the announcement of the retrenchment of 3,000 people.

Several economic experts believe Telkom has at least 4,500 excess staff, which has a direct impact on the profitability of the entity.

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Tighter measures put in place to accelerate transformation – whites now become target of ANC regime

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The government announced through the Minister of Labor, Thulas Nxesi, that “tough” measures will now be put in place so that radical transformation in the workplace can take place faster.

New legislation will be introduced to compel employees to transform otherwise they will be punished. Workers and activists will apparently ensure that transformation takes place, says Tabea Kabinde on behalf of the Employment Equity Commission.

The presumption exists that whites will be the major target against which discrimination is being committed, and economists believe it will downgrade the country’s bankruptcy like Zimbabwe.

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Parmalat joined a growing list of private sector companies embarking on restructuring that could leave hundreds of its workers jobless

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The company announced a process to change it’s distribution model first in January and its implementation began in the middle of May.

According to the company, the new model involved partially outsourcing components of its logistics distribution network to an external provider.

Distribution services in Polokwane, Nelspruit, Bloemfontein, Upington and George have already been outsourced to an external service provider, while those in Centurion, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth and East London outsourced to the provider will return to Parmalat.

“To minimise business risk, Parmalat SA has opted to, for now, return all the distribution services from distribution centre’s back to Parmalat, and to continue with the outsourcing of the rest of its distribution network in accordance with the new operating model that has already been implemented,” the company said.

The company did not answer direct questions on the number o
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Employees of thirty municipalities may not receive salaries due to a shortage of funds – caused by lack of skill of councils and mismanagement of funds

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It appears that thirty municipalities do not have enough funds to pay their workers at the end of June.

This causes medical aid, pension contributions and other policies to fall in arrears and workers are at risk of discontinuing benefits from providers.

The latest report shows that municipalities struggle with debt over billions of rand’s and that only a small percentage of the councils received a clean audit report caused by incompetent councils and mismanagement of funds.

-Read the original article in Afrikaans on die Vryburger
This report does not necessarily reflect the opinion of SA news.

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State-owned Denel has cash flow problems and can only pay workers a portion of their salaries

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Denel said that they could only pay employees 85% of their salaries for the work done in the month of June.

Group Chief Executive Officer, Danie du Toit said in a statement, “The management of Denel is working tirelessly to ensure that delayed portions of salaries will be reimbursed to employees as soon as possible.”

Du Toit says the management of Denel acknowledges the inconvenience caused by the decision, in particular the late communication. However, at the time the decision was made, the company had no alternative but to go this route.

Those staff members who bank with First National Bank will receive 85% of their salaries on Tuesday (June 25) and other employees on Wednesday (June 26).

“Due to ongoing liquidity challenges we are now faced with the unfortunate reality that the company is not in a position to fulfil the 100% salary obligation for June 2019,” Du Toit said.

The statement went on to say that the sh
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MultiChoice plans to cut 2,194 jobs – Seems like the pay channel is losing revenue after the Ghoema and Steve Hofmyer debacle

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MultiChoice may retrench over 2,000 employees in its call centres and walk-in customer service centres, according to a statement from the ICTU trade union.

ICTU spokesperson Thabang Mothelo told MyBroadband that the plan was put in place without the union being consulted, and they are convening urgent meetings to address the issue.

In a statement to media, MultiChoice said that it will enter into a consultation process with 2,194 of its employees “within Customer Care and the Walk-in Centres”.

This is part of the “strategic realignment of its customer service delivery model”, said the company.

“The realignment is a response to the changing behaviour of its customers, who are increasingly moving away from traditional voice calls and visits to Walk-in Centres and adopting new self-service and digital technologies to engage with the company.”

MultiChoice said it will make new roles available for multi-skilled employees.</p
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Mining groups lay down workers due to heavy financial losses, SA economy troublesome while unemployment rate continues to rise

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The Sibanye-Stillwater mining group retrenched 3,450 of its workforce in gold mines, which is nearly half the number expected.

An updated report on the reduction of its workforce, especially the Beatrix and Driefontein gold mines, points out that the decision was necessary after the five-month strike after consensus was reached on retrenchments.

Only one shaft in the Driefontein mine continues to produce, which indicated that nearly 6,000 permanent workers and 800 contractors would be retrenched at Beatrix and Driefontein.

The heavy losses of the mines eventually resulted in 3,450 permanent workers being retrenched, as well as 550 contractors.

Driefontein’s number 8 remains in production with only about 970 workers and 55 contractors.

-Read the original article in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
This report does not necessarily reflects the opinion of SA-news.

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Why must it always be a black and white thing? – SATAWU strike against salary differences between black and white mariners will shut down Transnet ports across SA

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The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) said on Tuesday its members would shut down the country’s ports on Thursday as part of a strike against salary discrepancies between black and white mariners.

Negotiations between the union and the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) collapsed this week.

If the strike goes ahead it would have a devastating impact on the economy as the ports authority controls and operates all eight commercial seaports along the country’s coastline.

In a statement, Satawu spokesperson Zanele Sabela said black staffers were being paid lower wages than their white counterparts and the state-owned company had failed to address the anomaly despite acknowledging its existence.

“Following the granting of the strike certificate, TNPA called on Satawu to put off the industrial action, saying it wanted to negotiate. The parties held two robust meetings but could not reach a satisfactory ag
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South African Municipal Workers’ Union goes after corrupt officials for plundering R88m from workers’ coffers

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The embattled South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) said on Wednesday that it has mandated its national office bearers to open criminal cases against other persons and companies involved in stealing money from the union account.

This as Samwu confirmed that the workers’ coffers had been plundered of almost R88 million in just three years and said that the report into this wide-scale plundering had been kept under wraps.

Samwu said the bank accounts had a combined balance of just more than R94.5 million by 3 November 2015, but this had drastically decreased and the union’s bank balance was over R6.2 million, and not the R538 which has been widely reported in the media.

“The special CEC has therefore resolved that the attorneys which have been implicated in the report should be removed from the union’s panel of attorneys and also be reported to the law society,” it said.

“Employees who have been im
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Estimated 5 000 workers to lose their jobs at Tongaat Hulett in KZN as property giant restructures its business, its not known whether restructuring will be BEE compliant

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The sugar and property giant is the largest employer on the lower North Coast and one of the largest in the province.

An estimated 5 000 workers are set to lose their jobs as South African agriculture and property giant Tongaat Hulett restructures its business, North Coast Courier reports.

The beleaguered company would not confirm the actual number of retrenchments, but informed sources said the workforce totalling 30 000 would be cut by about 16 per cent, or 5 000 jobs.

The company is the largest employer on the lower North Coast and one of the largest in the province.

Recently appointed CEO Gavin Hudson initiated a comprehensive assessment of Tongaat’s finances by accounting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers amid reports of financial anomalies which saw the company’s value drop to the lowest level in two decades.

The share price has fallen from around R80 last August to R20.16 this week.

The company’s problems have been
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