A new confederation of labour unions poses to strip members from existing federations. The Confederation of South African Workers’ Unions will be holding its first congress in Johannesburg on March 8 before being officially launched later that day.

A group of PAC leaders wants to disqualify all four candidates for the party’s presidency from standing for the position. A group of at least five senior members wants to introduce a new candidate into the leadership race.

Boni Dibate, chief executive of South African Express Airways (SAX), will face a disciplinary hearing next week over fraud charges involving Transnet funds. The hearing began last October after officials, including Transnet Group CEO Mafika Mkwanazi, heard from a whistle-blower.

The National Association of People Living with HIV/Aids’s turned its guns on its allies as the hunger strike by several of its members ended dramatically. They were arrested after they allegedly forced entry into the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association’s offices.

Low salaries paid to public officials might be the cause of corruption and the high turnover of staff in the public sector, says a report to the presidency by the Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office-Bearers.

A loud crowd burst into the hall singing and chanting militant slogans just before Pan Africanist Congress deputy president Motsoko Pheko was about to deliver his address to the party congress in Umtata.

Pan Africanist Congress bigwigs this week decided to limit the number of candidates for its presidency to forestall perceptions of division within the party — but neglected to inform potential candidates, including Stanley Mogoba, the president.

The Pan Africanist Congress is unlikely to unseat its current president, Stanley Mogoba, at its three-yearly national congress in Umtata next month, party insiders say. The lacklustre style of Methodist cleric Mogoba is seen by some as a factor in the party’s poor election showings.

Acting judge Mike Hellens this week recused himself from the civil case between members of the Vanderbijlpark community and steel giant Iscor following an application by David Soggot, legal counsel for 16 applicants from Steel Valley.