Community healthcare workers march for a minimum wage of R12,500
As the outcry by thousands of care workers whose bodies continue to be on the frontline against covid-19 gets louder around the country, their conditions of work remain unchanged.
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Despite landmark legal protections, women continue to face gender-based violence in pandemic-era Tunisia
In Tunisia, during the two and a half months of lockdown introduced on 21 March to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the ‘1899 Green […]
Dismissed workers not happy with CCMA outcome
The workers claim that the CCMA commissioner refused to accept their evidence.
Police fire teargas and rubber bullets at anti-racism protest – photos
The illusion of South Africa’s rainbow nation has become even more unreal at many ex-model C schools.
Zimbabwean teachers’ struggle against poverty continues
Teachers’ unions in Zimbabwe have rejected the government’s latest offer to settle the dispute.
Principal fears for his life after accused of misusing funds
The school principal abandoned his post after he was accused by parents and community members of misusing school funds.
Bloody end as members cut ties with union
The union called in thugs to assault members who had come to its offices to terminate their membership.
Community care workers on strike for permanent jobs
Community healthcare workers are on the frontline in the battle against the covid-19 pandemic, yet in the Eastern Cape are still ‘volunteers’.
In desperate search of disposal sites for its nuclear waste, Japan offers poisonous grants to two small villages
One morning in September, 87-year-old retiree Masao Takimoto was reading the newspaper in his house in Kamoenai when a news story captured his attention, ruined […]
As Poland’s women’s movement celebrates a tentative victory, LGBTI activists are still fighting PiS’s ugly culture war
This August Linus Lewandowski was physically attacked by a group of strangers, simply for being gay. The 28-year-old software engineer and LGBTI+ rights activist was […]
Domestic workers caught between a rock and a hard place
Covid-19 and lockdown have made working conditions for domestic worker worse.
Child labour rife in Zimbabwe
The high levels of poverty in Zimbabwe are pushing children into working to survive.
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