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Reflections on workers’ regression, resistance and renewal
Byadmin April 30, 2026

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…

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Child Labour | Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) | Constitution | Covid-19 | Opinion | Thought Leader

Unionised workforce still ideal
Byadmin April 30, 2026

We celebrate May as workers’ month, to remember those who sacrificed so much to improve the lives of workers and the many challenges still to be overcome. This week, not only are we celebrating Workers’ Day on 1 May but also 32 years of democracy on 27 April. Both provide an opportunity to reflect on…

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Constitution | Democracy | Donald Trump | electoral system | executive | Thought Leader

Democracy at a crossroads in South Africa – and the US
Byadmin September 15, 2025

In November 1863, casting his eye across the Gettysburg battlefield where thousands of soldiers had died in the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln delivered his speech that to this day remains one of the most quoted when the topic of democracy comes up. He declared: “We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have…

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Alassane Ouattara | amendments | Burkina Faso | Constitution | Cote D’Ivoire | Thought Leader

Ouattara poised to win Cote d’Ivoire’s October presidential elections
Byadmin August 25, 2025

Cote d’Ivoire, which will hold presidential elections on 25 October, plays an important role in the politics and economy of West Africa, a region in which a number of countries are either under military rule or facing political uncertainty, which has hindered economic growth. Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have been suspended from the Economic…

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