Sarah Smit, Author at The Mail & Guardian

South Africans stuck in China are desperate to escape coronavirus ‘prison’

Article Sarah Smit & Chris Gilili - 14 Feb 2020

But the department of international relations and co-operation claims they are comfortable and taken care of

Bad workplaces, longer strikes

Article Sarah Smit & M&G Data Desk - 14 Feb 2020

Strikes over poor working conditions have intensified over the past four years, the recently-released Industrial Action Report for 2018 reveals.

Slice of life: ‘Those people, they have killed Neil’

Article Sarah Smit - 14 Feb 2020

Most of the workers said his face, it looked like Jesus

One strike and you’re out – registrar tells unions

Article Sarah Smit - 14 Feb 2020

A municipal workers’ union is the first to be sanctioned for not following the new rule when deciding whether to go on strike

Trump’s ambassador to SA under fire for nepotism allegations

Article Sarah Smit - 10 Feb 2020

The United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs has demanded briefings with Pretoria embassy employees ‘pushed out’ by Lana Marks

Changes to mining Act need work

Article Sarah Smit - 7 Feb 2020

Proposed amendments to the legislation mandate meaningful consultation with communities but critics say there are loopholes

Embattled Limpopo municipality fails residents — again

Article Sarah Smit - 7 Feb 2020

The Sekhukhune district municipality does not have the money to provide water to all its residents

Service cuts foil Jo’burg ‘renewal’

Article Sarah Smit - 30 Jan 2020

The inner city has long been a target for ‘revitalisation’ by local government. But property developers say staving off urban decay is an uphill battle

Aggett tormentor had a ‘morbid’ obsession — Barbara Hogan

Article Sarah Smit - 29 Jan 2020

The former minister told the inquest into the trade unionist Neil Aggett’s death that security branch interrogator Stephan Whitehead was voyeuristic

Suicide or not, police killed Aggett

Article Sarah Smit - 24 Jan 2020

The trade unionist was interrogated by the police and, 70 days later, was found dead in his cell

‘There were no marks on his neck’, Neil Aggett inquest hears

National Sarah Smit - 23 Jan 2020

The trade unionist’s partner at the time he was detained at John Vorster Square says she now believes his death was not a suicide

Failure to investigate TRC cases during the Mandela era delayed justice, Aggett inquest hears

National Sarah Smit - 20 Jan 2020

Counsel for late trade unionist Neil Aggett’s family decries the slow pace of instituting an inquest into his death

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