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Irrationality & the vultures
As more people are thrown onto the scrapheap of unemployment, driven to desperation, the vultures gather to pick their bones.
Three clarion calls to action
July 12, 2020
Time to fight for free, universal access to any Covid-19 vaccine or treatment and, in the longer term, free, universal healthcare.
Wages & the need for financial disclosure
May 13, 2018
It is not in the interests of either employers or employees to have profitable enterprises collapse. Which is why exemption clauses exist in cases of legislated minimum wages. But for such a system to operate honestly, requires full financial disclosure by employers.
How to counter child exploitation
November 29, 2017
The exploitation of children is a growing global problem, part of the lunatic "race to the bottom" the system demands. And only where an adequate social welfare net exists or where all families are guaranteed the very basic necessities of life can this widespread exploitation of children be eradicated.
Resilence amid the doom & gloom
January 16, 2017
The almost meaningless display of verbal pyrotechnics that annually accompanies South Africa’s secondary school matriculation results is thankfully behind us. But the reality of a potential 700 000-plus school leaving job seekers is most definitely not. Along with double that number who dropped out before Grade 12, they highlight the most volatile element in the […]
Some thoughts for the looming new year
December 15, 2014
In a world where the overwhelming majority, the working and workless poor, the caring egalitarians and those who daily go hungry amid plenty, wish only to live productive and decent lives in peace. Let their will — our will — be done, says Terry Bell.
Terry Bell Writes 
July 27, 2020
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