Today's deadline for concluding negotiations between the government and public service trade unions on the occupational specific dispensation for state employees would not be extended, Public Service and Administration Minister Richard Baloyi insisted yesterday.

The unity government has this week been urged to initiate moves to compensate tens of thousands of farm workers, who have lost their jobs as a direct result of Robert Mugabe's 'land reform' scheme.

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has released results of its financial operations between July 2007 and June 2008.

STATE doctors in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday defied a court order that they return to work, even as the Public Sector Bargaining Council expressed confidence that talks on the occupation specific dispensation for health workers would be concluded today.

Unemployment among young South Africans is hovering at 30 percent, shooting up to over 60 percent for youths in their late teens and early twenties. But tertiary education and skills development seem not to be making much of a dent