Shop Workers International Solidarity: First-Ever Global Agreement
After prolonged difficult negotiations Shoprite Checkers and an international alliance of trade unions signed the first-ever global agreement with an …
Vol 34 No 2 June/July 2010
Review: Waving Our Stories, Together: Sactwu Twenty Years 1989-2009
Weaving our stories, together: Sactwu twenty years 1989 – 2009 South African Clothing & Textile Workers Union (Sactwu, 2009) Reviewed …
Remittances from South Africa: Zimbabwe’s Saving Grace
In 2008 the economic crisis in Zimbabwe reached its peak and households were on the verge of starvation. Tatenda Mukwedeya …
Outsider’s Journey Through ‘Democratic’ South Africa
Jean Pierre Lukamba fled the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2006. A well educated man from a middle-class family …
Municipal Indigent Policy? What Is It and Is It Implemented?
Most people don’t know that government gives a grant to municipalities to provide basic services to households deeply affected by …
Municipal Call-Centre Conditions: Can Batho Pele Work?
New ideas of management in the public sector have put the customer at the centre. But can such ideas work? …
In Search of Democratic Compass: Conference of the Democratic Left
Participants in the Conference of the Democratic Left process are seeking fresh anticapitalist alternatives. Believing that South Africa’s national liberation …
History Curriculum As Indoctrination
The school history curriculum under apartheid was taught from the perspective of white Afrikaner nationalism. As a teacher Michelle Friedman …
Government, Profit and Inequality: Linking Hands in the Water Sector
Sagie Narsiah believes that the South African state’s neo-liberal policies have violated citizens’ equality and socio-economic constitutional rights. He explains …
Global Economic Crisis: Implementing Industrial and Social Policy
In the last two editions of the Labour Bulletin Ben Fine explored concepts to better understand the global economic crisis …