Updates
CWAO Radio Updates bring weekly, relevant news to you as a worker – from rights to strikes, legislation to campaigns, and everything else affecting the working class.
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - A worker's story
This week marks the 8th week since the start of Mister Sweet strike. On the 19th of August Workers at Mister Sweet went on strike demanding a R19000 basic salary as their main bone of content, but there are more issues than what meets the eye as we previously reported…
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: ZGG foreign national workers barred from work
ZGG a vegetable and flowers farm west of Johannesburg has ordered 37 of its foreign national employees to stop coming to work if they do not have work permits or Asylum Seekers documents. They have been given two weeks or kiss their jobs a goodbye. This is even though some…
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Latest Press Statement
We, the 25 social movements listed below, from six provinces across South Africa, hereby announce that we will ramp up our boycott of Mister Sweet products. Collectively, we are alarmed and dismayed at the highly abusive behaviour of Mister Sweet against the workers who have been on strike since 19…
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Latest Press Statement
We, the 25 social movements listed below, from six provinces across South Africa, hereby announce that we will ramp up our boycott of Mister Sweet products. Collectively, we are alarmed and dismayed at the highly abusive behaviour of Mister Sweet against the workers who have been on strike since 19…
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Namibia Blocks Ship
Today we’ll be looking at an article published by BBC News titled Namibia blocks ship over Israel war concerns. A vessel suspected by the Namibian authorities to be carrying military cargo intended for Israeli use in the ongoing war in Gaza has been blocked from docking in the southern African…
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Farm Workers March against pesticides
In today's episode we’ll be looking at an article by Ashraf Hendricks published in GroundUp titled Farm workers march in rain and wind to call for ban on pesticides. More than 150 mostly women farm workers and supporters braved gale force winds and heavy rainfall to march through the streets…
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Injured Workers
The SWF has been informed that several casual workers have been seriously injured over the past week in the Mister Sweet factory after Mister Sweet bosses put pressure on them to handle dangerous and unfamiliar machinery. Mister Sweet has also allegedly breached s17 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act…
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mister Sweet Protest - Week 4
The Mister Sweet strike is in its fourth week and is taking its toll on striking workers. From the 19th of August workers have been demanding R19 500 as their basic salary, but their employer is sticking to their 7% increase across the board. This is despite Mister Sweet being…
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Labour Court victory
The Simunye Workers Forum union has defeated Mister Sweet's attempts to bring an interdict against the strike at its factory in Johannesburg which began on 19 August. Johannesburg Labour Court judge J Daniels recently ruled that the employer was unable to show any link between the alleged violence they complained…
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Actions of Solidarity
In this episode of Buwa Basebetsi Updates, we highlight the messages of solidarity towards the protesting Mr Sweet striking workers.
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Week 3
In this episode of Buwa Basebetsi updates, we continue to report live from the Mr Sweet protest, as it is now in it's third week. Workers continue to picket outside the Mr Sweet factory as they demand a minimum wage of R19 500 and an across the board increase of…
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - A workers' story
In today's episode of Buwa Basebetsi Updates, as the protest at Mr Sweet enters it's third week, we speak to a worker at Mr Sweet, who details how she struggles to make ends meet due to her low income earnings.
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - A workers' story
Today Buwa Basebetsi brings you the story of one of the longest serving employees of Mister Sweet, Yvonne van Dyk. She says that she started working for mister sweets back in 1987.
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Press Statement
The strike at Mr Sweet is now in its second week. Workers began striking on Monday, 19 August. They are picketing at Mr Sweet, Corner of Dekema and Bezuidenhout Roads, Wadeville in Gauteng. Simunye Workers' Forum condemns bosses for locking workers out and threatening workers with reduction in wage offer…
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet workers protest
In this episode of our Buwa Basebetsi Update we bring you the latest developments on the current protest taking place at Mr Sweet in Wadeville. We hear directly from the workers on the ground, and get an overview on the reasons behind the strike.
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Household Affordability Index
In this episode of Buwa Basebetsi Updates we take a look at the House Affordability Index with the help of Mervyn Abrahams from the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice & Dignity Group.
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Reality of asylum seekers
In this episode of Buwa Basebetsi Updates we look at the the reality of asylum seeker in South Africa, focusing on two individuals from Diepsloot, Gauteng. We carry out this analysis with the help of an article by Kimberly Mutandiro published in GroundUp.
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Strike Barometer
Strikes tell us much about the state of the class struggle, including how militant and organised workers are, the main issues they are mobilising around, and which workers are leading struggles against the bosses. Strike statistics and analyses are therefore critical for anyone interested in building the workers' movement in…
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Olympic Games 2024
In this episode of Buwa Basebetsi Updates we look at the Olympics Games, focusing on Israel's participation. We carry out this analysis with the help of an article by Hassan Lorgat published in the Media Review Network website.
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: School Registration Assistance
As part of our contribution to the community we are offering free support with school registration. The Casual Workers Advice Office, Simunye Workers Forum and Simunye Women Workers Forum know the challenges community members face in day-to-day life and we are aware that things are difficult economically for the masses…