Seta Restructuring: Any Hope for Up-Skilling?
Despite having a thick purse, Setas have been fraught with problems. However, their underperformance and sometimes corrupt activities have not …
Issue
Setting new standards
South African delegates played a prominent role at the recent International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conference in Geneva. Auret van Heeren …
Settlement week
By Shaida Bobot
SEWU and Sikhula Tips on organising informal workers
Informal mainly women workers are notoriously difficult to organise. Annie Devenish and Caroline Skinner through exploring two informal women-led unions, …
Security strike violence: Union leadership found wanting
Violence in the security strike earlier this year was widely condemned. Martin Jansen reflects on the reasons for violence and …
SEWU conference
SEWU
Security strike: Why the violence?
Scenes from the security strike seemed to come straight out of the 1980s. Tumi Makgetla argues that a complex of …
Sex work a labour issue
Natasha Distiller outlines the conditions that sex workers work under and calls for decriminalising and regulating the adult commercial sex …
Sex work in Namibia
Government policies in Namibia have identified sex workers as being at high risk of exposure to HIV because they are …