The retrenchments saved the South African Bureau of Standards R68-million but falls short of the R150-million target
Salaries account for 65% of the South African Bureau of Standards’ total operating‌ costs
The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) is auditing its condom department after a manager at the bureau was accused of certifying defective condoms in exchange for cash. ”On the basis of the allegations, we did an immediate check and we are covering the other companies,” the bureau’s general manager for food and health, Mike McNerney, said on Friday.
A 26-year-old former employee of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) shot a 42-year-old woman in the head on Thursday afternoon at his former place of work and afterwards shot himself, Pretoria police said. The man was on the second floor of the SABS building in Groenkloof with the woman who was handling his file.
There is substantial evidence indicating serious wrongdoing at the SA Bureau of Standards, Democratic Alliance MP Mark Lowe maintained on Wednesday. Lowe has accused SABS management of suspect foreign travel allowances, leave and financial irregularities, and of sexual harassment.
The Democratic Alliance on Monday detailed a remarkable set of accusations against the top management of the South African Bureau of Standards, including allegations some are involved in fraud and child pornography.
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/ 10 January 2001
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Pretoria | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s Bureau of Standards (SABS) has announced the purchase of equipment worth millions of rands to monitor the effects of radiation in mobile cellular telephones. SABS President Eugene Julies said the sophisticated monitoring equipment would help determine the exact radiation humans were subjected to while using cellular telephones. “Since […]
Kasem Alsabsabi has a German passport, and cancer, but his family is stuck in a camp in Athens.
After years of rigorous debate, the SABS has finally issued the final draft minimum standard for the set-top box decoders that will be used in SA.
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/ 20 October 2011
The SABS says substandard imports flooding the SA market are killing local business as companies with SABS approval can’t compete with cheap imports.