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Fighting to be heard: For the South African Guild of Actors the idea that performers can be protected through a
sectoral determination is not new. Photo: File

A long road to recognition

Government’s proposed labour reforms could finally extend employee protections to South Africa’s creative workforce but unions warn the real work starts now

Minister of Employment and Labour Nomakhosazana Meth

Nomakhosazana Meth: Employment and Labour

SCORE: E Despite her efforts to make the department a more proactive facilitator of job creation, Meth still faces an unemployment rate above 30% at the end of 2025. The…

Minister of Labour and Employment Nomakhosazana Meth. (File photo)

Labour department denies racial quotas in Employment Equity Amendment Act

The Democratic Alliance, which has launched a court challenge to the amended Act, says it cannot have a place in democratic South Africa

Minister of Labour and Employment Nomakhosazana Meth. (File photo)

Nomakhosazana Meth

SCORE: E- Nomakhosazana Meth was appointed to the portfolio under the government of national unity, but even in those few months, her efforts to put measures in place to create…

Douglas Nicolas, Ngxiwa Khetho and Derrick Madini, founding members of the Mantusini Dairy Farm, say the government-funded dairy has not benefited the community. (Photos: Joseph Chirume)

How government abandoned a multi-million-rand community dairy farm

After catastrophic floods, minister Nomakhosazana Meth introduced a mysterious investor to the farm without any due diligence

People queueing outside of Ngcobo Community Health Centre in Masonwabe township. The clinic has been without running water for 10 years. (Delwyn Verasamy)

Will the new Eastern Cape govt give people of Ngcobo back their 24/7 health centre?

After 2022, the Ngcobo Community Health Centre in the rural Eastern Cape ceased operating 24 hours every day because spiralling crime and dry taps made it impossible for workers…

The feuding clinical manager and chief executive of Zithulele Hospital, near Mthatha, were transferred on Thursday.  (Simon Le Roux/Twitter)

Warring Zithulele Hospital leaders transferred

This comes after recent protests by local residents demanding that the hospital’s new chief executive step down