Saturday, 19 June 2021
Anna Majavu is a trade unionist and journalist currently completing a PhD in journalism.
The Makana municipality continues to fail the town and shutting it down has drawn the attention of those in power, but not the desired outcome. Another meeting will determine what action residents take next.
Farm owners and agricultural companies continue to illegally destroy the graves of dispossessed residents to make way for planting and deny relatives access to pay their respects and perform rituals.
Three exponents of Arabic script reflect on the meaning, spirituality and activism of their craft and how they use it to celebrate faith and practise everyday compassion.
Families such as the Mapapas have been surviving on the special Covid-19 grant, which has come to an end. How they will survive moving forward is a question many in South Africa now face.
The shop steward has faced death threats from corrupt union members and fought bids to privatise water and sanitation across the country, all the while educating workers on their rights.
A state-owned enterprise from China bought a huge stake in the Rössing Uranium Mine and immediately began downgrading working conditions before dismissing union leaders.
Buyiswa Dayi lives on the Eastern Cape citrus farm where she was born, but now faces eviction by her employers despite seeming to have legal security of tenure.
In this follow-up story on working and living conditions for farm workers in the pineapple-producing region of Bathurst, workers speak about long hours, unfair dismissals and victimisation.
Palestinian workers risk their lives to work in Israel, where they are exploited as cheap labour, and women face subjugation in Israeli companies.
Israel’s export of weapons to the United States and South Africa – and a proposed law to stop this and other trades – was discussed at this year’s Israeli Apartheid Week.
The Bathurst retirees say ‘South Africa’s biggest pineapple producer’ has disconnected their electricity and told them to demolish their mud homes.
The failure of coalition governance in the Eastern Cape is making way for civic organisations to contest the upcoming local government elections.
Several unions joined the general strike in South Africa on Wednesday to condemn what they expected from the annual budget announcement: austerity measures that would hurt their members.
Eastern Cape healthcare workers, supported by short-term staff, have shut clinics to protest against the health department’s decision not to renew Covid-19 contracts.
In an economy bleeding quality jobs, President Cyril Ramaphosa has once again used his state of the nation address to promote neoliberal economic plans that will not benefit the working class.
The Legal Practice Council wants to suspend the attorney with bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety who could not get the mental health support he needed and eventually swore at a judge.
Auto-manufacturing workers who were crammed together in Volkswagen’s Uitenhage factory during the Covid-19 pandemic want their shop stewards reinstated.
Residents were disconnected from electricity for six days after being told to pay high and inaccurate water, electricity and rates bills, some of which were in other peoples’ names.
A horrific accident caused by a malfunctioning machine has left a young factory worker distraught, in pain and without hope for the future. His colleagues, too, are traumatised.
Many labourers in the Sundays River Valley have never seen a cent after suffering debilitating pain and even disability from accidents while at work. A non-profit trust wants to change this.
In this series, New Frame profiles the unsung heroes who have kept the country fed, safe and healthy during the pandemic – like Daria van Sencie, who protected her school over the lockdown.