Monday, 27 June 2022
Anna Majavu is a trade unionist and journalist currently completing a PhD in journalism.
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.
In moving to a low-carbon economy, South African workers may lose out as unions weaken and renewable energy components continue to be imported at the expense of local jobs.
Residents of the eKhenana occupation in Cato Manor believe the justice system in Durban is being misused to repress their community.
The dairy company wants to retrench workers, move to a 12-hour day six days a week and ignore public holidays. Unions also fear it will close factories and pivot to distributing Israeli products.
In this second feature on land restitution in Stutterheim, a farmer allocated land by the government loses it to a member of a prominent ANC family.
The Makana Citizens Front has made promising inroads into the support base of established parties in Makhanda and says its councillors will build on a strong foundation.
The residents of this tiny hamlet in the Eastern Cape have to travel far for basic necessities such as medicine and clothes. The Makana Citizens Front has vowed to change that if its candidates win.
Residents of small settlements say they are not hopeful that their appalling conditions will change after next month’s elections, but many seem willing to cast their vote regardless.
The federation’s affiliates will stand with Numsa and down tools if the metalworker union’s demands are not met.
In the first of a two-part series on land restitution and reform in Stutterheim in the Eastern Cape, an elderly woman tells of her battle against the government to get her land back.
Those in the steel and engineering sectors who are on a countrywide strike say they will not back down from their demand to be paid their dues, especially after the many sacrifices they have had to make.
The ruling party has ignored protests and court orders, leaving the Eastern Cape municipality of Makana in a state of collapse. Now, residents’ only hope is to vote them out.
The former Atlantis factory worker intends to focus on women and worker-controlled unions in the Global South as a new assistant general secretary at international union federation IndustriALL.