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Bitter background to stalled pay talks
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.
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.
Marikana and the 2014 elections
March 5, 2014
Most of the public, along with the media, appear stunned that miners on the platinum belt have maintained their strike for nearly two months. They need only to consider the depth of bitterness caused by the bloodbath at Marikana,
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”.
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?
Hypocrisy, hot air & some hope for the future
December 6, 2013
Regular readers of this column over the past decade may be forgiven for feeling frustrated and annoyed by the current goings on within Cosatu and the wider, governing, alliance. As noted last week, we have heard it all before. But the irony and hypocrisy displayed now seems to have reached new levels. Apparently blissfully […]
Terry Bell Writes 
March 16, 2014
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