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Xolani is a municipal worker in Johannesburg, doing dirty, hard, but socially necessary labour for which he is paid the negotiated minimum of R4 330.30 a month. He is an example of one of thousands of workers in similar positions in local government service in towns...
As we mark the centenary of the ANC there are, as we might expect, idealised versions of its history being trotted out. These tend to present the ANC’s hundred years as a righteous procession from early beginnings, through persecution and heroic resistance, to...
Zodwa Madiba was elected OKM councillor (PR) in August 2007 in Dube, Soweto. The Operation Khanyisa Movement (OKM) is an electoral front of social movements fighting against privatisation of services and for free basic services for all. The vision of OKM is socialism....
There is good and obvious reason to celebrate the long history of the ANC: the organisation’s marked dedication over one hundred years to the cause of the betterment of the lot of the oppressed African people in South Africa. It has also sustained an honourable...
There’s an unacknowledged elephant in the climate change debate: trade agreements. These agreements are major unrecognised obstacles to what would otherwise be urgent, rational and fair mitigation or adaptation measures to climate change.A conflict is certain between...
COSATU GS says the current two tier system is wasteful and unsustainable. Zwelinzima Vavi's Keynote address to the Emerging Market Healthcare gala dinner, Cape Town, November 19 2011: Thank you very much for inviting me to speak at this prestigious gathering of...
It is not lost on Kenyans that once upon a time when we were working on the final draft of the constitution ahead of the referendum, some clever fellow who we never got to know inserted the words ‘subject to national security’ which would have altered the spirit and...
On Monday, nostalgia, tinged with concern, will provide a worker and union undercurrent when the post office, with justifiable pride, celebrates the centenary of South Africa’s first delivery of mail by air. Similar feelings afflict postal workers the world over as...
South Africa has long faced considerable health system equity challenges. In particular, 43% of total health care expenditure is attributable to private health insurance schemes, which only cover 16% of the population. General tax funding allocated to the health...