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Glencore has pleaded guilty to charges of bribery, corruption and market manipulation elsewhere in the world.

Parliament to shine spotlight on Glencore operations

It has called for an official investigation into mining licences and contracts awarded to the company in South Africa

The pensioner who ‘fronted’ for R10m of a family’s capture of SAPS

An old-age grant recipient was allegedly paid just R5 000 a month to be a director of one of the Chetty-owned companies

(John McCann/M&G)

R100-million: How one family captured the police

The family-run syndicate behind the alleged scam may have looted even more — as much as R1-billion

The oil, gas and mining industries will benefit from the extractive industries transparency initiative in 2021

Published contracts are a powerful antidote to corruption

The oil, gas and mining industries will benefit from the extractive industries transparency initiative in 2021

Employers have been forced to choose between retrenching employees, cutting salaries or regarding the lockdown as the employees’ annual leave.  (AFP)

Covid-19 could have an effect on labour law

Identifying three possible disputes that may be a real issue in South Africa

Employers are advised to enter into fixed-term contracts with caution, unless they are for a short period and for a specific reason

​Fixed-term contracts – there must be a justifiable reason to use them

A dismissal is when an employee reasonably expected the employer to renew a contract of employment, but the employer did not renew it

More than $2-million in USAid contracts for Abbas’s sons

Firms run by sons of President Mahmoud Abbas won United States government aid contracts to repair roads in the Palestinian territories.