The source of skills frustrations
The impact of the Skills Development Act on the economy’s performance is increasingly being questioned together with the role being …
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The September commission report
COSATU’s September Commission was mandated to reflect critically on whether COSATU’s strategies and policies were appropriate to the new conditions …
The September Commission: confronting the future
COSATU’s September Commission proposes a programme of social unionism to enable the federation to drive social and economic transformation. Deanne …
The September commission: shaping congress debates, stimulating activism
The September Commission report provides an in-depth assessment of COSATU strategies and organisational capacity. Karl von Holdt examines the COSATU …
The September scenarios
The September Commission has drawn up three scenarios to explore the challenges facing labour and to provoke discussion in COSATU …
The sexual economy poverty, sex and survival
Mark Hunter finds that, for some women, sex is an increasingly important way to survive in Mandeni in KwaZulu-Natal, one …
The shopsteward who want to go to parliament
Joseph Mthembu considers himself a people’s leader. A full-time PPWAWU shopsteward at PG Bison, he has repeatedly been offered a …
The silence is deafening
Andrea Meeson argues that while unions wish to address HIV/AIDS they are not responding quickly enough. Attachments The silience …
The SACP: a basis for socialist unity
Trade union and the party Attachments The SACP. A basis for socialist unity_0 (2 MB)
The Skills Development Act transforming education and training for workers
Brendan Barry and Dawn Norton outlines the new legislation dealing with skills development. Attachments The Skills Development Act transforming …