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Standard Bank flexes its global outlook muscle through the Africa-Asia trade corridor 

South Africa is ranked 36 out of 138 countries that export goods, 40 of 138 countries that import goods and 19 of 138 countries trade balance. We have have managed to create a…

Advocate Shamila Batohi addresses the Private Sector Symposium against Gender-Based Violence and Femicide. File photo

PSC launched to combat workplace GBVH 

The Private Sector Coalition brings SA businesses together to fight the scourge of gender-based violence and harassment

Garment workers want Bangladesh to ratify the International Labour Organisation’s decision on ending discrimination against women, gender-based violence and minimum standards of social security. Photo by Mamunur Rashid/Getty Images

Challenging Eurocentrism: A step towards social justice

The International Labour Organisation needs to work against narratives that portray Africans as charity cases, and introduce democratic decision-making processes

Women are disproportionately affected by climate impacts and economic exclusion. Photo: David Harrison/M&G

Brace yourselves for the worst or act – now!

Revolutions have grown out of less — millions of people without salaries are not going to sit quietly, watching elites live undisturbed

Development statistics tell us what has happened. They show us how many children have dropped out of school, how many young people are unemployed and how many households remain trapped in poverty. (Oupa Nkosi)

Unemployment in South Africa is worse than you think

The unemployment figures in Statistics South Africa’s latest quarterly report are shocking, but 3.5-million people are missing from the official count

It is time for people respond to change gender-based violence, and end the suffering. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy)

UN agency adopts convention on harrassment at work

The convention is critical in terms of promoting and protecting the rights of working women

A strategy witha broader view of informal employment must focus on increasing the incomes and improving the conditions of workers in all informal sectors of the eonomy. (Photo: David Harrison)

Informal economies are diverse

South African policies need to recognise thi

Employers and domestic workers can contribute a national domestic workers’ pension fund operated through mobile-based platforms for easy registration and tracking contributions. (File photo)

Hope for domestic workers

Proposed new legislation would make it possible for domestic workers to claim compensation for injury, illness or death on the job

This expanded definition of parenting deserves some attention because it attempts to redefine parenting beyond heteronormative biological parenthood, says the writer (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

Labour law redefines parenthood

The definition includes adoptive parents and commissioning parents in surrogacy cases

The organisation called the right to strike a “very powerful weapon”, giving workers the ability to influence employer to deal with workplace grievances. (David Harrison/M&G)

‘Don’t punish teachers for a broken system’ — Equal Education

The organisation wants to defend teachers’ right to strike in its submission to the essential services committee

Former US President George W Bush also wooed Saudi King Abdullah. Changes in the economy and politics have seen Saudi’s clout take a hefty knock

Making the Business Case for Gender Equality

​Gender parity is both an economic and a moral imperative

Hidden agenda?

Work, ideally, should be decent. Respectable work in a safe environment with adequate remuneration is a goal to which most people aspire.