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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
Marikana: the pain SA ignores at its peril
March 8, 2014
Warnings that SA will ignore Marikana at its peril, today seem even more appropriate than they did only days after the massacre.
Another breach in ANC-led alliance
February 23, 2014
Another Cosatu union has broken ranks with the ANC-led alliance, but still maintained a toehold "in th absence of any alternative".
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”.
Clarity, Kriel & the Cape Times
December 28, 2013
A lack of adequate resources and asset-stripping by the Irish carbetbagger Tony — now Sir Anthony — O'Reilly are the real problems with the Cape Times, not the undeniable quality, let alone pigmentation, of the staff.
Revisiting a Cde Moss vision
December 22, 2013
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The name of Moses Mayekiso — Comrade Moss — has surfaced once again in the turmoil surrounding the decisions made by the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) to “go back to basics”. What does this mean?
Terry Bell Writes 
March 23, 2014
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