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Mediation: an honourable profession
IN AN an unequal society where conflict between employers and employees is inevitable, the role of mediators who help minimise the damage to protagonists and society at large is an honourable one. An mediation is the role of the CCMA.
Bitter background to stalled pay talks
March 16, 2014
A deeply emotional background underpins the stalled platinum sector wage talks — and it long predates the bloodshed at Marikana on August 16, 2012
Missing the point on Women’s Day
March 9, 2014
The founders of International Women's Day would be spinning in their graves given the way the day is now, for the most part, celebrated.
SA workers resist the lure of spin
February 18, 2014
This is the first in the new series of Inside Labour. It appears initially on the Fin24 digital platform and in the Sunday City Press newspaper in South Africa. The curse of spin and speculation is well and truly upon us in South Africa. It could hardly be otherwise, with a major strike on the […]
The transformative farce of Davos
January 31, 2014
Calling on the richest people in the world to transform the economic system seems to amount to the extraordinary belief that "the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of us all”.
What 2014 holds for SA & the labour movement
January 22, 2014
In broad terms, 2014 could be the most critical year for South Africa since the transition from apartheid. But most of the problems already evident will remain in place.
Mandela: the dangers of deification
December 13, 2013
Myths can often be easily shattered, the shards of half truths, of falsehoods and exaggerations tending to bury the real merit on which they were based. So let it not be with Mandela.
Party politics dominates Cosatu crisis
December 5, 2013
Fudging and delay. That was what emerged from yesterday’s eagerly awaited Cosatu press conference. As a result, the questions about the future of suspended general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and the prospect of a Special National Congress (SNC) remained unanswered. And it soon became obvious, as the conference progressed, that the reason for the fudging and […]
Terry Bell Writes 
March 23, 2014
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