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South Africa: The Never Ending Exploitation of Domestic Workers
SACSIS, 11 September 2014
They are important drivers of the South African economy, yet domestic workers are still amongst the lowest paid workers today. Their fate was sealed during the apartheid era when… Read more »
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South Africa: Domestic Workers to be Covered by Compensation Act
Biz-Community, 8 September 2014
South Africa's domestic workers will soon be covered by the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (Coida), Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant said. Read more »
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South Africa: Act to Be Extended to Cover Domestic Workers
SAnews.gov.za, 7 September 2014
South Africa's domestic workers will soon be covered by the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases (Coida) Act, Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant said on Saturday. Read more »
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Nigeria: The Child Domestic Workers, the Abuses
Independent (Lagos), 3 September 2014
The last article ended with me wondering aloud what would make a woman , a mother, give out her six or seven year old child to another woman as a househelp. Just last week,… Read more »
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South Africa: Editorial - the Race Thing
The Daily Vox, 15 July 2014
Nothing puts people on the defensive or makes tempers flare the way race does - or rather talking about race and its derivatives, race and culture, race and religion, and of course… Read more »
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South Africa: A Day in the Life of a South African Maid
The Daily Vox, 8 July 2014
"I wake up at 4:30am because Catherine and Stuart [not their real names] like me to serve them their tea in bed in the morning, and it takes a long time to get from Khayelitsha to… Read more »
Exploitation of S African Domestic Workers
Domestic workers are important drivers of the economy yet they are still amongst the lowest paid workers.
Myrtle Witbooi, a founding member and general secretary of the union and Chair of the International Domestic Workers Network.
InFocus
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More than 8.5 million people are receiving payments from the Unemployment Insurance Fund. If a bill before parliament's labour committee is passed, benefits could be extended to a ... Read more »
