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Weather, workers & a greener environment
Increasing unemployment, controversial evictions and the first cold snap of winter have highlighted the plight not only of the homeless, but also of probably the hardest working and most poorly paid of entreprenurial labourers. At the same time a greener, job creating future beckons.
GM quitting SA is a wake-up call to all
May 29, 2017
The General Motors pull-out of South Africa is an excellent example of the dilemma facing more and more companies on a global scale: the need to remain profitable in a world of cut-throat competition in an environment of surplus capacity and production. And for every bit of corporate gain, it will be workers who will bear the pain.
How chaos came to the “Roof of the World”
May 29, 2017
"We knocked the bastard off," Ed Hillary remarked when he and Tenzing Norgay returned from conquering the world's highest peak. They never saw what their triumph would mean, given the the fortuitous timing of the ascent of Mt Everest.
‘Ghastly’ reality on SA roads
May 13, 2017
An Easter weekend death toll of 235, with m ore than 1,000 people injured, highlighted the complex problems with South Africa's road transport. It is a situation where many truck, bus and coach drivers maintain that their harsh conditions have been little changed in 25 years.
De Klerk ‘a problem with national dialogue’
May 8, 2017
Why the inclusion of former apartheid president FW de Klerk is a millstone around the neck of the "national dialogue" initiative about the future of South Africa launched by former ANC president, Thabo Mbeki.
A May Day lesson for SA labour
May 6, 2017
The tumultuous events during May Day in South Africa illustrated more starkly than ever before the huge rifts within the ANC-led alliance. They should also have raised questions, especially in the labour movement, about united fronts or so-called “broad church” alliances.
The danger in unprincipled unity
April 29, 2017
To rally around a flag, an individual a label or a brand, and to follow blindly, is a recipe for disaster. Yet this is a call being loudly trumpetted today in South Africa and there will certainly be such calls to blind loyalty on May Day.
A strike that favours all road users
April 12, 2017
South African bus commuters stranded today as a result of a national transport strike should bear in mind one important fact: this strike is in aid of the commuting public almost as much as it is in support of the drivers.
Terry Bell Writes 
June 11, 2017
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