Monday, 23 May 2022
Anna Majavu is a trade unionist and journalist currently completing a PhD in journalism.
The steel manufacturer’s decision to seek an interdict preventing some of its employees from taking part in the national strike has aggravated Numsa, which says it won’t back down from its demands.
An ‘equal community’ living on a long-defunct military base in the heart of Cape Town feels threatened by the behaviour of defence force members who have moved back into its midst.
Waiting lists for houses should be kept away from ANC councillors and overseen by an independent body that reports back to affected communities.
Uhla lwabalindele ukwakhelwa izindlu kumele lungasondeli kwakusondela ezandleni zamakhansela e-ANC futhi kuqokwe isigungu esizimele esizolwengamela bese sibika kubantu.
The provincial leaders of a civic organisation, commercial farmers and an ANC mayor have agreed that the farm workers’ strike be suspended, but the strikers have questioned their mandate.
Striking citrus farm workers in the Eastern Cape’s Sundays River Valley say they are fighting against unfair labour practices that favour migrants over South Africans.
Abasebenzi basezifama abaqhankqalazayo kwingingqi iSundays River Valley kwiphondo iMpuma Koloni bathi balwa ngokuchasene nemeko engentle abaphangela phantsi kwayo nethethelela abemi bamazwe angaphandle.
Starvation and not just hunger and malnutrition has become a feature of life for many impoverished kids. They need solutions for the long term that go beyond charity.
Many Eastern Cape villages populated by impoverished Black people do not have a reliable water supply. Successive ANC governments have done nothing to change this, worsening poverty and illness.
In a book about the Unemployed Workers’ Movement, Shaheed Mahomed recounts witdoeke attacks and how a mass movement of shack dwellers came together to resist forced removals.
Arrested in terrifying dawn raids in the Occupied Territories, teens as young as 13 are taken by Israeli authorities and held sometimes for months. Many are tortured.
The student who spent NSFAS money paid erroneously into her account faces five years in prison, but her supporters say the company responsible for the error is making an example of her.
The governing party has been criticised for abandoning the impoverished in favour of naked greed and avarice judging by their presidential candidates ahead of the elective conference.
In the final article in a four-part series on gender-based violence and grassroots activism, Lucelle Campbell discusses addressing the intergenerational trauma that persists in her community.
In the third of a four-part series on grassroots activism against gender-based violence we meet an economist with a firm focus on developing opportunities for those the government ignores.
Striking workers fear that corporate changes at the dairy giant will lead to reduced local production and increased imports of Israeli products.
In part two of a four-part series on grassroots activism against gender-based violence, we look at an East London woman’s involvement in her hometown, where she organises against the violence that women experience.
In part one of a four-part series on gender-based violence and grassroots activism, we look at an anti-GBV community-response team in the small Western Cape town of Klapmuts.
Localised projects such as SaliTuba in KwaZakhele give residents a way to feed themselves and their communities, develop skills and create sustainable livelihoods.
In a breach of the Labour Relations Act, the dairy giant has hit out against workers in the second week of protected action against proposed job and pay cuts.
Problems ranging from asthma-causing black mould to faeces floating up toilets plague houses recently built for military veterans in Cape Town.