SA in talks with Huawei

South Africa's labour department is negotiating a possible out-of-court settlement with a subsidiary of China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, which it accuses of failing to comply with local hiring quotas, Huawei and a government official said. South Africa is facing its highest unemployment levels since the end of white minority rule in 1994. Authorities took Huawei Technologies South Africa to court this month, stating it had not met a requirement that 60% of workers must be South African. Fikiswa Mncanca-Bede, a lawyer at the labour department, said its officials met with Huawei Technologies South Africa's representatives on Monday.