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Solidarity: Aurora worst employer

Johannesburg - The Aurora mining company has been crowned the worst employer for the second year running, trade union Solidarity said on Tuesday.

Although competition was stiff, "the decision to award the worst employer prize to Aurora was obvious", spokesperson Ilze Nieuwoudt said.

The awards are an annual event and the union has prizes in four categories: employer incentive for good performance, employees of the year, worst boss of the year and worst employer of the year.

Aurora beat suspended national police commissioner General Bheki Cele, Denel Group executive head Talib Sadik, former Land Bank head Philemon Mohlahlane, and former crime intelligence boss Joey Mabasa - who was named worst boss of the year.

Aurora Empowerment Systems is headed by, among others, Zondwa Mandela, a grandson of former president Nelson Mandela, and Khulubuse Zuma, a nephew of President Jacob Zuma.

The company's directors are accused of destroying and selling off infrastructure at the Grootvlei and Orkney mines, causing the loss of more than 5 300 jobs and pocketing R122m from selling the mine's gold while it was still under their management.

The "employees of the year" award was given to the workers who completed the Gautrain project.

Others nominated in the category included employees of Kumba Iron Ore, private security companies, conservationists, game rangers and South African police members fighting to save rhinos from being poached.

The "Willing Walkers" award was given to the 109 469 fieldworkers and 25 884 supervisors for the national census, Nieuwoudt said.

The "Waste with a Will" award was given to the defence department's acquisition arm Armscor for "sending top officials overseas to a ball, despite the fact that Armscor has already received government bailouts of R1.6bn over the past three years".

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