June 10, 2022
South Africa: Abandon All Hope That the ANC Cares for Us
With a government that fails to provide the much-needed relief available to a population that is increasingly desperate, the onus is on ordinary South Africans to hold the country… Read more »
June 09, 2022
South Africa: Airline's Grounding Just the Latest Blow for Workers
The airline has been in business rescue for two years without a sign of relief for employees who have felt the stress of reduced pay, insecure jobs amid retrenchments and a heavy… Read more »
June 03, 2022
South Africa: Another Northern Cape Hospital Succumbs to Crisis
State patients in the province have fewer and fewer facilities available near to where they live and must travel hundreds of kilometres for treatment because of the nursing… Read more »
May 27, 2022
South Africa: Saftu's Division Laid Bare At Congress
The election of a new leadership was a hotly contested affair that overshadowed workers' issues, but the leaders claim that this was democracy at work. Read more »
May 25, 2022
South Africa: Northern Cape Healthcare Emergency Is Deepening
Long-term government neglect of health system staff, an austerity health budget and a global shortage of nurses combine to make conditions untenable for health workers and… Read more »
May 26, 2022
South Africa: Eastern Cape Healthcare Workers Stretched Too Far
In an apparent bid to save money, the province terminated the contracts of thousands of workers and refused to fill vacant posts, leaving clinics woefully understaffed. Read more »
May 24, 2022
South Africa: We Are Not Disposable, Say Healthcare Workers
The Gauteng health department's budget has been slashed in half, resulting in nurses who worked through the pandemic sitting at home while 10 000 posts are vacant. Read more »
May 13, 2022
South Africa: Workers At Arcelormittal Refuse to Budge Over Wages
The steel manufacturer's decision to seek an interdict preventing some of its employees from taking part in the national strike has aggravated Numsa, which says it won't back down… Read more »
May 09, 2022
South Africa: Chief Executives Really Don't Need to Earn So Much
There's a limit to how much one person can spend and it falls way below what top executives are paid in South Africa. Inequality will remain until the wealthy concede this. Read more »
May 05, 2022
South Africa: Worker Compensation Yet to Be Put Into Practice
Two workplace incidents show that although domestic workers are legally covered by the compensation act, a lack of follow-through makes it almost impossible to claim. Read more »
South Africa: Cosatu's 'Successful' Workers' Day Rally
Kicking the president out of the federation's main rally shows how tired workers are of the government protecting the private sector while claiming to be on the side of the working… Read more »
April 28, 2022
South Africa: The Men of Nelson Mandela Drive
Workers sit along Mahikeng's main road day in and day out, hoping to be hired for odd jobs, while the government fails consistently to address the issue of unemployment. Read more »
April 29, 2022
South Africa: Marking Workers' Day in Dispiriting Times
Previously, millions of people were mobilised in the hope of a better future on May Day. Now, amid mass unemployment and the collapse of an emancipatory vision, that optimism is… Read more »
South Africa: Sundays River Valley Strike Put on Ice for 14 Days
The provincial leaders of a civic organisation, commercial farmers and an ANC mayor have agreed that the farm workers' strike be suspended, but the strikers have questioned their… Read more »
April 26, 2022
South Africa: Farmers Are to Blame for Xenophobia, Say Protesters
Striking citrus farm workers in the Eastern Cape's Sundays River Valley say they are fighting against unfair labour practices that favour migrants over South Africans. Read more »
April 12, 2022
South Africa: Financial Aid Schemes Hinder Graduates' Job Search
Impoverished students suffer the consequences when the National Student Financial Aid Scheme fails to pay universities, which then withhold academic records. Read more »
April 13, 2022
South Africa: Axed Airline Employees Pay the Price for Corruption
More than three-quarters of workers at South African Airways Technical have been retrenched, to devastating effect. The few who kept their jobs now have to fight for better… Read more »
April 07, 2022
South Africa: Reabetswe Moeti's Justice Will Be Televised
The filmmaker continues to craft stories that confront abuses of power in South Africa. She also advocates for better working conditions for women in the entertainment industry. Read more »
March 28, 2022
South Africa: Mineworkers Who Have Paid the Price
Paralysis, tuberculosis and silicosis are just some of the tragedies that befall miners in South Africa, but mine owners have been reluctant, at best, to do the right thing. Read more »