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For India’s stigmatised and exploited sanitation workers, the pandemic has only made conditions worse

21st September 2021 Equal Times 0

It is barely 5am and Borun Haari* is already out on the streets of Kolkata, pushing his waste handcart. A door-to-door garbage collector and street […]

Deep-sea mining: civil society sounds the alarm on the threat posed to biodiversity

20th September 2021 Equal Times 0

Sometimes referred to as the ‘oil of the 21st century’, metals such as nickel, cobalt and manganese are used to make the batteries that power […]

Zimbabwe launches National Labour Migration Policy to help protect migrant workers

14th September 2021 Equal Times 0

Although there is no reliable data, with an estimated 4 to 7 million people living outside of the country, Zimbabwe has one of the highest […]

University workers demand insourcing and better working conditions

3rd September 2021 Joseph Chirume 0

Led by Giwusa, workers at university residences in major cities in South Africa have gone strike

Teachers in KZN turn to Zikalala for help

18th August 2021 Nokulunga Majola 0

Sadtu says there is a shortage of more than 2,000 teachers in KwaZulu-Natal.

Minimum wage still not a living wage after increase

2nd August 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

Workers earning the minimum wage say that its increase earlier this year has not made life easier.

The shrinking space for journalistic rights and freedoms in Palestine

28th July 2021 Equal Times 0

“It was a Saturday, and the street was full of demonstrators. We were filming the events from a corner,” recalls Shatha Hammad, a 28-year-old Palestinian […]

Informal traders decry lockdown, looting and lack of support from the City of Joburg

27th July 2021 Chris Gilili 0

Workers in the Informal economy of Johannesburg say that the City has made things hard for them during lockdown.

Education department happy with vaccine rollout – even in Eastern Cape

26th July 2021 Mandla Mnyakama 0

The department of basic education in the Eastern Cape and nationally claims that Covid vaccination programme in the sector is going well.

Nestlé settles with union to end strike

22nd July 2021 Johnnie Isaac 0

The acrimonious wage dispute was settled with a 4% increment with Nestlé.

Clinical waste collectors – unprotected, untrained, underpaid and undervalued

21st July 2021 Equal Times 0

It was an accident that could have been avoided. While a waste collector was incinerating infectious waste at Connaught Hospital, Sierra Leone’s principal adult referral […]

Gqeberha fishermen set off to catch squid after 2 year wait

9th July 2021 Elitsha reporter 0

A challenge by the South African Squid Management Industrial Association has been at the centre of the delay experienced by small-scale fishers in Gqeberha.

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