Slave labour?: reforming the prison system
South Africa suffers from an extremely high crime rate. Our prisons are overcrowded. The work prisoners do is demeaning and …
Vol 22 No 1 Feb 1998
Sex work: a new dispensation?
The Gauteng government has taken the first steps towards decriminalising sex work. Sasha Gear strips away some of the stereotypes …
Politics and unions
In his report to the recent ANC National Conference, President Mandela raised questions about the role and function of the …
Divided loyalties
Ben van der Merwe, a NEHAWU shopsteward at the Department of Labour in Germiston and former NEHAWU Branch Office Bearer, …
Dissension or division?: conflict in CWIU
The president of the CWIU, Abraham Agulhas, has been suspended from the union for five years. Workers at BP, where …
Defend, empower, advance: CWIU’s approach to company restructuring
Restructuring is the name of the new game in the chemical sector. Tanya Rosenthal and Wilele Nolingo outline the steps …
Cutting standards
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Dancing with dictators: South Africa and Indonesia
The ANC government maintains that trade links with authoritarian regimes such as Indonesia is in the South African nation’s interests. …
Chalk and cheese?: SASBO and COSATU
Two years after its affiliation to COSATU, SASBO is struggling to integrate its white-collar membership into the federation. Malcolm Ray …
Anti-privatisation: for democratic public sector reform
SAMWU official, Maria van Driel, outlines the forms of privatisation which are being introduced at local government level and the …