Shop stewardship
Although being a shop steward is a voluntary position that you are elected into by members of your union, there …
2012
Service providers and funding of NHI
Accreditation of the health-care service providers should include all health-care institutions, the National Health Insurance (NHI) funded by public funds …
Schooling and skills development crisis
For transformation to take place in South African education a number of things should be done. These include addressing historical …
Scrap Bantustan traditional courts bill
The Traditional Courts Bill in its current form rewinds the clock for over 40% of South Africans living in rural …
Security guards in Gauteng
While it is easy to get a job as a security guard in Gauteng, the working conditions are appalling, writes …
SA must rethink relations
South Africa’s current strategy of bending backwards to please China threatens our hard-fought democratic gains. Allowing the Asian dragon to …
Resisting colonisation of union lifeworld
Trade unions such as the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) are always defending the rights of workers …
Rasta speaks on Ramaphosa
Rasta, a worker from Nkaneng, Marikana, also came to the University of the Witwatersrand where African National Congress (ANC) deputy …
Protest must draw class line
Service delivery protests in South Africa and international protests against the capitalist crisis must be understood using class analysis of …
Progressive alliances
The time for trade unions to remain in old-fashioned alliances with social democrats is over and therefore unions should begin …