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Time for brief respite: 2019 is coming
December 15, 2018
Rough times seems certain to lie ahead in 2019., So perhaps the widely recognised festive season should provide a welcome respite, a time not only to rest and relax, but to contemplate the rigours of the year ahead; a time to analyse and to plan, since hope still exists that a better world is possible.
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
Behind the SABC debacle
December 10, 2018
Amid all the rumour, innuendo and double talk surrounding the board resignations and other happenings at the SABC lie two simple facts: the board is answerable only to parliament, and not to any minister and, without a requested R3bn bank loan guarantee — not a bailout — the national broadcaster will be bankrupt.
Posted in: General reporting
Pay people fairly for the work they do
December 2, 2018
South Africa can expect a deluge of bigoted pro- and anti-minimum wage propaganda from vested minority interests as the date for implementation draws near. Much of this may amount to wilful distortion of facts most people should be aware of, especially if the rhetoric moves into overdrive..
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
Stories, facts & the minimum wage
November 30, 2018
There is incrfeasing cynicism and anger about the long-delayed introduction of some minimum pay agreements. This is coupled with evidence that the way the government's key Expanded Public Works Programme has been applied has had a damaging, particularly on municipal workers and firefighters.
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
Trade wars & steps in the right direction
November 18, 2018
It seems essential to take steps to move away from the clearly dangerous and damaging economic dogma of neo-liberalism. Far from being either free or fair, it is, in fact, an anarchic system that creates the "race to the bottom" that so harms the majority to the benefit of a tiny minority while being destructive, overall.
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
Lying our way to catastrophe
November 16, 2018
The global economy that affects us all is based on lies; on the distortion and misrepresentation of the views of usually much lauded economists. It seems crucial to drive this point home as we continue to be told that greater productivity and the up-skilling and re-skilling of workers will vanquish poverty and unemployment. In a […]
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
‘Fallism 2016’ – when SA students challenged the status quo
November 11, 2018
Everything Must Fall, the hard-hitting, thought provoking documentary film that provides perhaps the best insight possible into the tumultuous events that disrupted South African university campuses in 2016 will feature in the Netherlandsat the world’s largest documentary film festival from November 15 to 25. It will be part of a programme section entitled Frontline at […]
Posted in: Commentary
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