Vol 37 No 5 Jan-Feb 2014 – South Africa Labour Bulletin

Weighing up cost of silicosis

The mineworker class action lawsuit is an opportunity to challenge employer and state neglect of workers’ health and safety, write …

Listening carefully to shop stewards attending the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa)’s special national congress (SNC) in …

Although South Africa can be described as a social welfare state it is one that has continued to maintain historical …

Government policies in Namibia have identified sex workers as being at high risk of exposure to HIV because they are …

Rasta, a worker from Nkaneng, Marikana, also came to the University of the Witwatersrand where African National Congress (ANC) deputy …

Some revolutionary songs had their background in church hymns whilst some were composed in prison. Others were influenced by international …

The tragedy brought by divisions within the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) shows itself when workers are not …

Although worker choirs were part of the trade union movement’s struggle against apartheid they found themselves in a new terrain …

by Fedusa

In a statement released after the death of Nelson Mandela the Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa) said it was saddened …

by Cosatu

When Nelson Rohlihlahla Mandela passed last year on 5 December, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) paid tribute not …