Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Week 3

Workers at the Mister Sweet confectionery factory in Wadeville, Gauteng, began a strike on 19 August, which ended 11 weeks later. The company is owned by Premier FMCG, one of the oldest food and consumer packaged goods businesses in South Africa. Premier FMCG’s chief executive officer, Kobus Gertenbach, earns R18.8…

A five-day Labour Rights workshop for activists on the frontline of defending workers was hosted in Joburg. Hosted by the CWAO and Foundation for Human Rights, this five-day workshop is for activists (Human Rights Defenders) from 30 organisations who are all on the frontline of defending workers against exploitation and…

On the 9th of October 2024, the Department of Employment & Labour issued a press statement where they shared their readiness of their inspectors to be deployed to enforce another “wave” of labour law amendments. Muzi Mzoyi sat down with John Appolis of the Casual Workers Advice Office, who broke…

Here are two unsettling facts apparently meant to assure us that the market for labour is working well. A shopfloor worker at Woolworths would have had to work for more than three years to earn as much money as the group’s CEO Roy Bagattini made in one day.

The first indications of what life will be like for public sector workers under the Government of National Unity (GNU) can arguably be seen in the pioneering five-year salary and wage agreement that was recently signed by municipal unions and the municipalities.