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Reflections on workers’ regression, resistance and renewal
As we commemorate May Day 2026, we must confront a difficult but necessary truth: the state of workers’ rights in South Africa is not advancing in any meaningful sense. In many respects, it is under sustained attack — both openly through policy proposals and quietly through economic restructuring that is hollowing out the very foundation…