Migrant Labour

Berita’s Workers’ Day performance becomes a powerful meditation on migration, memory and xenophobia in a nation built through labour, movement and forgotten solidarities

Brazil and India are starting to win gains for ‘platform’ workers such as delivery riders. Unions in South African must support similar struggles

In post-apartheid South Africa, the system has evolved but has fundamentally stayed the same, triggering an inter-generational cycle of displacement

It is important to note that the phenomena of translocality and circular migration in Africa have often served as a strategy of resilience in tough times

Our society remains carved up because differences are viewed as weaknesses

In this province, the agricultural and mining sectors draw thousands of workers each year – and then they disappear. Here’s why we need to find them.

Short contracts are on the rise as multinational companies shift their people around the world.

The system is on its way out but its legacy endures – in low wages and dwindling union membership.

Critics fear President Joyce Banda’s plan to beat joblessness by sending tens of thousands of Malawians to South Korea could be "modern-day slavery".

Past meets present in the underground fight against Aids.

People from SA’s neighbouring countries flock here looking for work. Hundreds of thousands find it in the mining industry and in farming and tourism.

Although data surrounding labour migrants varies it is clear that apartheid-era patterns persist, writes Lisa Steyn.