On the right side of the road: A creative approach to job creation
In the light of Cosatu’s job creation campaign the Men on the Side of the Road project provides a useful …
Vol 29 No 6 Dec 2005/Jan 2006
NUM aims to remain ‘champ of champs’
The National Union of Mineworkers has taken some bad knocks in membership over the past few years. It however refuses …
Lower increases: Collective bargaining in 2005
By the end of 2005 it was possible to see the emergence of certain trends in collective bargaining over the …
From bulb to mainline blockage: A housing success story
The Johannesburg Housing Company has a growing reputation for providing a high quality of rental accommodation and services to people …
Education for socialism: Putting it back on the agenda
Workers education should focus on making the second decade of democracy in South Africa one for workers and the poor, …
Cosatu at the crossroads: Serving the core or the working poor?
Cosatu, launched in 1985, recently celebrated 20 years of its existence. Eddie Webster reflects on the changing labour market and …
Capitalist Nigger
Capitalist Nigger is authored by Chika Onyeani a former diplomat, journalist of international acclaim and editor of African Sun Times …
Asijiki: A History of the South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) by Kally Forrest (STE, 2005)
Last year the South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union marked its 30th anniversary. As part of its celebrations …
An unfinished strike
Moatlhodi Mongale and Pauline Sekaledi are full-time shop stewards from the SA Municipal Workers Union’s (Samwu) largest Johannesburg branch. They …
A worker poet’s passing
In 2005 Alfred Temba Qabula, a remarkable worker poet, died. Qabula was known by thousands of workers in Natal in …