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BRAZIL

Migrant labour in the digital age exploited

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

  • Richard Pithouse
8 min read
Cogta and Salga are pushing for an amendment Bill that seeks to remove the undue influence of smaller parties on the appointment of political office bearers in municipalities to be approved as law by next year’s elections. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AFRICA

2024: The year democracy was tested in Africa

Coming on the heels of seven coups since 2020, 19 countries held elections but with mixed outcomes

  • Tendai Murisa
6 min read
BABILE, ETHIOPIA – MAY 04: Refugee camp of somali people, Oromia, Babile, Ethiopia on May 4, 2023 in Babile, Ethiopia. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)
AFRICA

Lessons from Ethiopia’s progressive refugee policy

Ethiopia’s public attitudes should be blueprints for other African countries

  • Amanuel Isak Tewolde
3 min read
The World Bank is pausing talks over its future engagement with Tunisia following anti-immigrant comments made by the country’s president, Kais Saied. (Photo by Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
ANTI IMMIGRANT

World Bank halts Tunisia partnership programme over president’s ‘hate speech’

Hundreds of terrified African migrants flee to embassies and camps as human rights groups warns of increasing vigilante attacks

  • Agence France Presse
3 min read
If a proposed minimum R23 an hour for all workers goes through, it will be the first time domestic workers are treated equally. (Photo by Guillem Sartorio / AFP)
AGNES MPOFU

Raise domestic workers’ minimum wage to that of other workers, says commission

If a proposed minimum R23 an hour for all workers goes through, it will be the first time domestic workers are treated equally

  • Anathi Madubela
7 min read
Grave pit in the muslim cemetery of Bohoniki prepared for a miscarried baby from a migrant woman found in precarious state in the forests of Poland after crossing the border from Belarus during the migrant crisis between both countries. (Photo by Celestino Arce/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO

Death at the EU border: Migrants pay the price of Belarus’s ‘hybrid warfare’

Thousands are stuck in no-man’s land between Belarus and Poland, left to fend for themselves in dangerously cold temperatures

  • Madeline Roache
12 min read