The jury has been out on whether the new set of labour-broker laws will benefit thousands of temporary workers, but litigation will soar.

The Congress of South Africa Trade Unions was involved in adopting the decision to regulate labour brokers, says President Jacob Zuma.

Hopes that non-unionists would join Cosatu's march fell a little flat on Wednesday, but the protest nevertheless did show hints of wider appeal.

Julius Malema has told thousands of Cosatu marchers that the ANC must be reminded of the needs of the masses who voted the party into power.

Zwelinzima Vavi and Julius Malema have joined the Cosatu march in Jo'burg against e-tolling and labour brokers, swept up by a swarm of supporters.

Cosatu's call for a labour broker ban has been cast in a new light by research showing a quarter of jobs created since 1994 were filled by brokerages.

Six trade unions signed a three-year wage agreement on Monday, ending a nationwide engineering sector strike.

Teba, an apartheid pariah labour recruitment agency, has reinvented itself with a new focus on community.

SA is proposing sweeping changes to labour law intended to increase job security for temporary workers, but economists have expressed concern.

The ANC kicked off 2011 in confident mode, its president Jacob Zuma declaring to a packed stadium that this year would be the one when job creation would be tackled in earnest.