After working for five (5) hours in South Africa, an employee is entitled to a meal interval (break) of 60 minutes that is uninterrupted.
During the meal interval, the employee may only be assigned duties that cannot be left unattended and cannot be performed by another employee.
However, a written agreement can modify this requirement in two ways, it may reduce the meal interval to 30 minutes or it may exempt employees who work fewer than six (6) hours in a day from having a meal interval.
Further, each week, an employee is entitled to a rest period of 12 consecutive hours each day and a rest period of 36 consecutive hours. By default, the weekly rest period should include Sunday, unless there is an agreement stating otherwise.