Thursday, 28 January 2021
Anna Majavu is a trade unionist and journalist currently completing a PhD in journalism.
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.
Those illegally evicted from an East London shack settlement are sceptical that the government will return their belongings and abide by a court order to rebuild their houses.
In this third part of our story on a strike at an Eastern Cape factory, the food giant’s application for contempt of an interim interdict includes a prison sentence request for protest leaders.
In this second part of our story on a strike at the factory in the Eastern Cape, workers talk of inadequate toilet breaks, an allegedly unsafe environment and humiliating strip searches.
The festive season won’t be the same in the Eastern Cape this year, with fewer travelling after losing their livelihoods during the lockdown and physical distancing at traditional ceremonies on the cards.
In the first of this three-part series on worker rights, food factory employees in Komani fight their suspension for the ‘indecent conduct’ of liking posts by their union and a residents’ association on Facebook.
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.
Thousands of residents of a small Karoo town in the Eastern Cape draw their water from boreholes while emerging farmers have no water supply.
Darren Sampson is one of a number of public servants with long-term illnesses who have been fired for absconding while ill instead of medically boarded.
A Clover worker died after being hit by a vehicle while allegedly running from police gunfire on day one of the nationwide strike for better wages at the giant dairy company.
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration has dropped its bid to deter a small activist organisation from aiding vulnerable workers in the security services sector.
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.
The province’s member of the executive council for transport Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe is suing a United Front activist for Facebook posts he made that she says paint her as corrupt.
Palestinians need the support of global grassroots movements more than ever in the wake of a ‘normalisation’ deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
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.
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.
An 88-year-old woman has been threatened with the culturally taboo removal of her family’s ancestral graves after being evicted from the farm she worked on for decades.
In this fourth instalment in a series on the coronavirus and capitalism, New Frame reveals how a worker’s anxiety over positive cases in his workplace led to his dismissal.
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.