A mixed bag of fruit
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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Old Wine, New Bottle: The Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan
A year after government’s Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (ERRP) promised to stimulate equitable and inclusive growth in order to …
NUMSA adapts to Covid-19
Covid 19 has wreaked havoc on workers’ lives and has forced trade unions to change the ways they operate. Vanessa …
Government’s EPWPs need a new focus
Covid-19 has exacerbated unemployment levels, particularly for youth, to their highest levels ever says Thabiso Modise. Existing government programmes like …
Rights without rights
The tragic consequences of informality in the domestic sector during the Covid-19 Pandemic Statistics South Africa reported that over 25% …
Uber Eats gets indigestion
In December 2020 during the COVID pandemic Uber Eats’ couriers downed tools in the first ever national ‘platform’ strike in …
“How do you smile at patient number 200?” The #Care4carers campaign in South Africa
This conversation was first published in the Global Labour Column where Fikile Dikolomela-Lengene (who is in quarantine) spoke about the …
Why did the worker not remain an artisan and an artist? The unattended question of the worker’s ontological identity
Since Covid-19 is something of a question about the future, in relation to labour, can the question be broadened, and …
Incorporating bomahlalela; reconceptualising unemployment and labour in the age of uncertainty and fear
Dr. Thabang Sefalafala argues that COVID-19 has brought to many the tacit realisation that jobs alone cannot give security and …
The Deadly Surplus
The story is a parody of the authority in the capitalist society. The idea is that the authority of this …