Vol 30 No 3 Aug/Sep 2006 – Page 2 – South Africa Labour Bulletin

Maskandi deserves respect: Interview with Phuzekhemisi

He strums an ordinary guitar, wears traditional Zulu attire and comes from Illovo in KwaZulu-Natal. Woody Aroun and Bonga Ngwane …

Women farmworkers lead desperate lives. Fatima Shabodien traces a complexity of reasons for their abuse and urges farmworker trade unions …

by Allen, L

The sound of the penny whistle, or kwela, still rings in people’s ears years after its rapid rise in popularity …

Through conducting surveys in four townships Mandla Seleoane assesses the poor’s means of survival and speculates on whether certain kinds …

Peer education is an important response to HIV/AIDS in South African companies. Yet the relationship between thousands of workplace peer …

In June this year bus workers negotiated an historic 17% ownership of Putco. Jane Barrett explains the process in this …

by Reagon, G

Jo’burg streets are alive with the unemployed underwold. Writer Gael Reagon went for a walk through it. Attachments Greetings …

Government took years to produce the Communal Land Rights Act, but its arrival has created more problems than solving them. …

by SALB

South African Labour Bulletin finds out more about Cosatu president, Willie Madisha, and probes into his deepest secrets. Attachments …

by Satgar, V

Faced with global competitiveness which increases the ranks of the poor, what are our options? Vishwas Satgar argues that co-operatives …