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Vol 37 No 5 Jan-Feb 2014

Weighing up cost of silicosis

by Rachel Elfenbein and Richard Jordi

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

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Categories 2014, In the Workplace, Issue, Vol 37 No 5 Jan-Feb 2014 Tags mineworker workers’ health and safety

Special national congress

by Elijah Chiwota

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

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Categories 2014, In the unions, Issue, Vol 37 No 5 Jan-Feb 2014 Tags Numsa SNC ANC

Social inequality & welfare state in SA

by Eddie Cottle

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

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Categories 2014, Issue, On politics and economics, Vol 37 No 5 Jan-Feb 2014 Tags social welfare state historical inequalities

Sex work in Namibia

by Kgalemang Makgone

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

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Categories 2014, Across the Globe, Issue, Vol 37 No 5 Jan-Feb 2014 Tags sex workers HIV

Rasta speaks on Ramaphosa

by Luke Sinwell and Siphiwe Mbatha

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

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Categories 2012, 2014, In the Workplace, Issue, Vol 36 No 5 Dec 2012/Jan 2013, Vol 37 No 5 Jan-Feb 2014 Tags ANC

Power of revolutionary songs

by Busang Moiloa

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

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Categories 2014, In the past, Issue, Vol 37 No 5 Jan-Feb 2014 Tags liberation anti-apartheid

Legacy betrayed

by Likayov Rubuchenko

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

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Categories 2014, In the unions, Issue, Vol 37 No 5 Jan-Feb 2014 Tags Cosatu union leaders

History of worker choirs

by Busang Moiloa

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

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Categories 2014, In the past, Issue, Vol 37 No 5 Jan-Feb 2014 Tags apartheid democracy in 1994

Fedusa mourns Madiba

by Fedusa

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

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Categories 2014, In the unions, Issue, Vol 37 No 5 Jan-Feb 2014 Tags Nelson Mandela

Cosatu tribute to Mandela

by Cosatu

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

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Categories 2014, In the unions, Issue, Vol 37 No 5 Jan-Feb 2014 Tags Nelson Rohlihlahla Mandela 5 December
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