More than 200 of the armed personnel used rubber bullets and live ammunition against eKhenana occupation, leaving several of its shack-dwellers injured.
25 countries have so far ratified ILO’s Convention 189, providing numerous labor rights and other protections to millions of domestic workers across the world, 82% of whom are women.
General Secretary of NUMSA Irvin Jim discusses the challenges to trade unions today in South Africa and the creation of the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party
The workers have been on a strike since October 15, having successfully consolidated participants from across the country in a National #PlasticsShutdown.
Tito Mboweni was formerly Governor of the Reserve Bank and is known for implementing anti-worker and neo-liberal policies in the country
5,000 members of the movement marched in Durban on Monday to denounce state repression. Many activists of the movement have been assassinated over the past few years
South Africa’s biggest social movement will hold protests to denounce the harsh assault by the state that has resulted in the assassination of its members and leaders, and the persecution of dozens in the movement
In June, Eskom had said that it would offer a ‘0% wage increase’, which was overwhelmingly rejected by the workers and trade unions.
On Wednesday teenagers in school uniforms, along with others, looted shops, mainly owned by Somali migrants, near Morris Isaacson High School.
S’bu Zikode of the Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa has been forced to hide without access to cellphones and no contact with his family, as have other members of the organization
Families of the slain mineworkers have told New Frame that the torments of the massacre refuse to go away.
Marches were organized in all nine provinces in the country and also in Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana and Namibia
