Kariega’s fired workers suffer ever more in old age
A group of workers who were dismissed in their 40s never found permanent work again. Now in their retirement years and struggling with failing health, they face gruelling poverty.
Stories by: Sibongile Portia Jonas
‘We sacrifice our families for Clover all year’
The strike at the dairy company continues, with exhausted workers demanding an end to compulsory weekend and public holiday work as well as overtime being forced on them.
Manager charged for inspecting workers’ underwear
The degrading treatment of four women whose manager forced them to strip to check if they were menstruating is part of a larger systemic problem that persists against black women.
Women’s rights trampled on in the Eastern Cape
A retail manager has been suspended for forcing four employees to physically reveal their menstrual status and Peddie residents protest against a ward councillor demanding sex for a work contract.
Student leader faces prison for his activism
Sabelo Madlala has left his TVET college with a criminal record instead of a diploma, after being criminalised for taking up the grievances of students in Makhanda.
Luxury game reserves leave workers in the lurch
In this third instalment in a series on the coronavirus and capitalism, New Frame looks at the effects of retrenchments on workers in a high-end tourist region of the Eastern Cape.