Rail safety: Missing link in Transnet transformation?
Rail safety is in crisis believe Chris de Vos, general secretary of Transnet’s largest trade union-the United Transport and Allied …
Vol 32 No 2 Jun/Jul 2008
Opening and shutting doors of culture in Klein Karoo
The Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunsfees aims to be inclusive. But says Andries Bezuidenhout, who attended the festival recently, the arts …
No stereotypes of women
Bandile Gumbi is an impressive self-published poet and arts activist. Makhosazana Xaba spoke to her about how she became a …
Lonplats, Angloplats, Xstrata, Implats: Undoing Rustenburg community life
A series of photographs showing how mining has destroyed the environment in Rustenburg. Attachments Lonplats, Angloplats, Xstrata, Implats. Undoing …
Limping with wounds and winnings: Swazi textile strike
Swazi workers, mainly women, recently embarked on a rare industry-wide textile strike. They were met with ferocity by the state. …
Japanese history a trade union issues
Over 5500 trade unionists, anti-war and political activists rallied in Tokyo in November last year to demand an end to …
Human trafficking : Slavery by another name?
Human trafficking is a form of brutal and exploitative labour that trade unions seldom consider. Janet Shapiro looks at the …
Ever expanding wage gap
In the early 1990s trade unions were determined to reduce the apartheid wage gap. Over the past years this focus …
Electricity crisis: Why not smarter solutions?
People have been shocked by Eskom’s proposed price increases to deal with the electricity crisis. David Fig assessed Eskom’s plans …
Doors of learning not open to all: Struggle to reform higher education
Despite government insisting that it gives good support to higher education there is evidence to show this is not the …