Cosatu has called on teachers to lead a strike its members will hold in a month's time against labour brokers and proposed toll roads in Gauteng.

Mining Minister Susan Shabangu has put paid to nationalisation at the Mining Indaba, while outlining plans for a tax-heavy resource nationalism.

An Austrian group lobbying Facebook for better privacy controls is taking the site to task for letting users' data be published without permission.

Cosatu's call for a labour broker ban has been cast in a new light by research showing a quarter of jobs created since 1994 were filled by brokerages.

Commodities trader Glencore has reached agreement with Swiss mining group Xstrata on a merger that would create a global group worth $90-billion.