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Certification and social investment awards hide the harms that farmworkers suffer. Photo: File

Ecosystem of injustice: The hidden system that keeps rural South Africa unequal

Behind the facade of certification and social investment, inequality stems from an arrangement designed to protect corporate profits and maintain elite land ownership

Julian Schlemmer, the founder of Schlemmer & Associates. (Image via Twitter)

Recruitment search for a white male beyond the pale

A recruitment agency sent out an advert for specifying the marketing manager job at a high-end dealership was for ‘non-employment equity/affirmative action’ people (‘slightly…

What universities are doing in the fight against Covid-19

While teaching students during lockdown, institutions of higher learning are also using their expertise to make masks, develop vaccines and research labour abuses

Remember Marikana: Families of the miners killed in 2012 by the police laid flowers commemorated the seventh anniversary earlier this year. Andile Zulu argues that the appetite for brutality in the police did not end with apartheid. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Citizens ache for new form of politics

Talking about a revolution is fitting given the state’s performance over the past 25 years

ANC KZN members head to court to stop provincial congress

The workers who won’t snitch

Despite a legal obligation to inform on their comrades, workers across the country are refusing to do so, resulting in dismissal

A scaled-down labour inspectorate will leave vulnerable workers at the mercy of ‘unscrupulous employers’

Labour court judges block workers’ right to strike

In recent weeks, three cases have come to light that clearly show that labour court judges are issuing court orders forbidding strikes

(Ashraf Hendricks/Ground Up)

CCMA ‘improperly’ postpones workers’ hearings

The Casual Workers Advice Office has dealt with at least nine different cases that have been unfairly postponed at the CCMA

The City of Tshwane’s failure to apply for a waiver for Aucamp

Saftu strike ‘threatens worker unity’

The strike was ignored by three other federations, who described the action as a miscalculation

Why are men continuing to breed a culture of toxic masculinity even at their own peril and can anything be done about it?

A make-or-break case for the labour-broking sector reaches top court

Labour brokers are fighting a law that advances calls to ban the practice

For me, since I’ve been working at the Casual Workers Advice Office, I have been excelling because I haven’t lost a case, said Edgar Mokgola

Slice of life: A labour of love – and victory

A work organiser at the Casual Workers Advice Office has never lost a case at the CCMA, and he has helped workers return to their previous jobs.