Guns are killing our children, it is time to remove them
Several years ago, my brother was shot and killed, early one Monday morning, as he stepped out of the yard of our home in Katlehong, Ekurhuleni, for whatever business... Read more.
Black entrepreneurs’ resilience highlighted
The struggle and resilience of black business during the apartheid era is captured aptly in a new book titled The Journey of the Soweto Entrepreneur since 1905. ... Read more.
SA eternally indebted to the youth of 1976
It will be 48 years since the outbreak of the Soweto June 16 students’ revolt against Bantu Education and the apartheid government’s imposition of Afrikaans... Read more.
Fight Mercedes’ plan to axe 700 employees – unions
Trade union federation Cosatu has told its affiliate members to fight tooth and nail in rejecting the Mercedes Benz South Africa’s (MBSA) upcoming “workers’... Read more.
Beware populism seeking to scrap rights
The populist view is that the country’s Constitution needs changing, either because it is eurocentric or does not accord with African traditional norms or values,... Read more.
Workers deserve stake in African Bank – Cosatu
Trade union federation Cosatu says it will be engaging the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), which invests on behalf of the Government Employees Pension Fund... Read more.
‘Coalition must not water down ANC manifesto’
Three major trade union federations – the Congress of the South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) and the National... Read more.
Servant leaders would start by cleaning up cities
If you hear in a taxi or any public transport a commuter chatting with a friend or an acquaintance that they would rather be seen dead than setting their feet in... Read more.
Transnet Freight crucial to SA’s economic growth
Transnet Freight Rail must remain in the hands of the state even as it contemplates giving private players a stake in its operation to help rebuild and reform and... Read more.
Imagine earning R500 000 a day!
Trade union federations are concerned about the depletion of earning power for the working class while fat cats in businesses, particularly in the banking sector,... Read more.
