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A mixed bag of fruit

by Matthew Parks

Delivering on the Presidential Jobs Summit and ERRP commitments SALB interviewed Cosatu’s Parliamentary Coordinator, Matthew Parks, to find out what …

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Categories On politics and economics, Vol 44, No. 2

Old Wine, New Bottle: The Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan

by Trevor Shaku

A year after government’s Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (ERRP) promised to stimulate equitable and inclusive growth in order to …

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Categories On politics and economics, Vol 44, No. 2

NUMSA adapts to Covid-19

by Vanessa Le Roux
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Covid 19 has wreaked havoc on workers’ lives and has forced trade unions to change the ways they operate. Vanessa …

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Categories In the unions, Vol 44, No. 2

Government’s EPWPs need a new focus

by Thabiso Modise
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Covid-19 has exacerbated unemployment levels, particularly for youth, to their highest levels ever says Thabiso Modise. Existing government programmes like …

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Categories Featured, In the community, Vol 44, No. 2

Rights without rights

by Amy Tekié
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The tragic consequences of informality in the domestic sector during the Covid-19 Pandemic Statistics South Africa reported that over 25% …

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Categories In the Workplace, Issue, Vol 44, No. 2

Uber Eats gets indigestion

by Jamie Rosengarten
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In December 2020 during the COVID pandemic Uber Eats’ couriers downed tools in the first ever national ‘platform’ strike in …

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Categories In the Workplace, Vol 44, No. 1 Tags Uber

“How do you smile at patient number 200?” The #Care4carers campaign in South Africa

by Fikile Dikolomela-Lengene

This conversation was first published in the Global Labour Column where Fikile Dikolomela-Lengene (who is in quarantine) spoke about the …

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Categories In the Workplace, Vol. 43, No.4

Why did the worker not remain an artisan and an artist? The unattended question of the worker’s ontological identity

by Isaac Dumi

Since Covid-19 is something of a question about the future, in relation to labour, can the question be broadened, and …

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Categories On politics and economics, Vol. 43, No.4

Incorporating bomahlalela; reconceptualising unemployment and labour in the age of uncertainty and fear

by Thabang Masilo Sefalafala

Dr. Thabang Sefalafala argues that COVID-19 has brought to many the tacit realisation that jobs alone cannot give security and …

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Categories Featured, Vol. 43, No.4

The Deadly Surplus

by Isaac Dumi

The story is a parody of the authority in the capitalist society. The idea is that the authority of this …

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Categories On politics and economics, Vol. 43, No.4
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