Lisakanya Venna

6 days ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Lisakanya Venna |Felix Dlangamandla

BROKEN EGGS Unpaid for months and desperate for answers, Daybreak employees want immediate payment of outstanding wages and access to their Unemployment Insurance Fund documents. (Photo: Daybreak Foods) A protest erupted outside Daybreak Foods’ Delmas plant on Thursday morning after workers heard that a labour department inspector was arriving. Unpaid for months and desperate for answers, the employees gathered to demand immediate payment of outstanding wages and access to their Unemployment...

1 week ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Lisakanya Venna

Illustrative image: Source images generated with ChatGPT 4.o and Ideogram The Western Cape Division of the High Court and the Stellenbosch Regional Court have ordered a wayward Stellenbosch tenant to pay overdue rent to the value of almost R1-million to two landlords. Although his possessions were to be auctioned to pay off the debt, the landlords have yet to see the money owed to them.

1 week ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Lisakanya Venna

SMME FOCUS   Calab Baloyi, previous winner of the Standard Bank’s Kasi SME Pitch Challenge.

1 week ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Lisakanya Venna

The National Consumer Tribunal has made a finding favourable to a consumer whose car has been held by Cape Town Repair Services, but it’s a hollow win as the business has ignored the ruling. In a ruling that underscores the growing intolerance for shoddy service in South Africa’s automotive sector, the National Consumer Tribunal has come down hard on Cape Town Motor Repairs.

1 week ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Lisakanya Venna

Three Nsimbi Mining managers remain confined at a Mozambican coal mine office as angry workers demand months of unpaid wages. The standoff, fuelled by financial woes and withheld passports, has left staff stranded, desperate, and on the brink of survival. Workers at Nsimbi Mining’s Tete operations in Mozambique have continued to prevent three of the company’s managers from leaving the mine’s offices, believing they want to flee the country without paying workers their outstanding wages.