SA’s labour minister has instructed his director general Jimmy Manyi to choose between his job in government and his presidency of the BMF.
Newly elected Business Unity SA president Futhi Mtoba, has called the controversy around her appointment earlier this week "unfortunate".
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/ 19 February 2010
The Zuma government has not delivered on promises to trade unions and Cosatu should have refrained from supporting “individuals” in Polokwane.
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/ 17 February 2010
White South Africans are generally the biggest beneficiaries of recruitment and promotion in the workplace, Jimmy Manyi said on Tuesday.
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/ 10 October 2009
But he is ‘unashamed’ about holding two positions. Mmanaledi Mataboge reports.
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/ 26 September 2009
A campaign is gaining momentum in the Black Management Forum for the removal of Jimmy Manyi — now director general of labour — as forum president.
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/ 16 September 2009
The economic crisis is affecting the poor the most, Jimmy Manyi, Director General in the Department of Labour, said on Wednesday.
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/ 6 September 2009
The Department of Labour’s new director general warns companies to get their employment equity plans in order, writes Lloyd Gedye.
An amendment to the Employment Equality Act to penalise companies not adhering to racial diversification was recommended on Monday.
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/ 16 September 2008
The decrease in black people in top and senior management positions is not a result of a skills shortage, says Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana.
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/ 2 September 2008
Black men and women are making their presence felt in boardrooms across South Africa, according to the latest Trailblazer research.
Is being HIV-positive a disability? Nosimilo Ndlovu finds an organisation which says it is.
The Competition Commission on Wednesday laid perjury charges against the managing executive of Adcock Ingram Critical Care at the Sunnyside police station in Pretoria. The commission said it had laid charges against Arthur Barnett for allegedly ”committing the common law crime of perjury”. He allegedly ”knowingly” provided false information to the commission.
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/ 14 January 2008
Tiger Brands began charging 40 cents more for a loaf of Albany bread on Monday, with Pioneer Foods and Premier Foods in the process of considering their increases. In response, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) suggested the increases were linked to last year’s bread price-fixing scandal.
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/ 26 November 2007
The bigots never tire. For many years they have sought to justify colonialism and slavery in their noble quest to bring civilisation to the heart of darkness. Last week they were at it again. This time their target was Jimmy Manyi, the employment equity commission chairperson. The bigots accuse him of double standards because he works for a company accused of colluding in bread price-fixing.
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/ 14 November 2007
Tiger Consumer Brands, which owns Albany Bread, did not profit from the fixing of the price of bread, the company said on Tuesday. "The company did not benefit from the price-fixing. I don’t know who did, but we did not," said spokesperson Jimmy Manyi.
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/ 13 November 2007
A new group chief executive officer has been appointed at Alexander Forbes after the resignation of Peter Moyo, the company said on Tuesday. Bruce Campbell — previously chairperson of the company — has been appointed as group CEO. Moyo apparently left the company because of differences with the board.
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/ 29 September 2007
South African companies are like Irish coffee — white on top and black at the bottom — said Jimmy Manyi, commissioner of the Employment Equity Commission on Saturday. Speaking at the University of Stellenbosch on Saturday, Myani used the analogy to explain the lack of employment equity.
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/ 13 September 2007
The Public Protector is to conduct a preliminary investigation into allegations of improper conduct against Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba. Gigaba had been informed of this by letter, the Public Protector’s office said on Thursday. It said this ”own initiative investigation” would seek to determine the merits of the allegations against Gigaba.
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/ 4 September 2007
White women should be struck off a list of groups recognised as previously disadvantaged in terms of the employment equity legislation, the Black Management Forum said on Tuesday. In its written submission, the forum requested that the current employment equity legislation be amended to exclude white women as beneficiaries.