Community leaders say they didn’t authorise shop
News | 29 February 2016
Residents queue from 6am
News | 26 February 2016
Social grant increases are below inflation
By Elroy Paulus
Analysis | 25 February 2016
App connects fishers, scientists and fishery management
By Ashleigh Furlong and Masixole Feni
Feature | 24 February 2016
By giving corporations a bigger stake, the people affected by mining are being marginalised
Opinion | 18 February 2016
At Cosatu's demand of R4,500 per month, we risk increasing unemployment
Opinion | 15 February 2016
President is placating business and wavering on policy
By Gilad Isaacs
Opinion | 15 February 2016
Lack of rain has forced farmers to make difficult decisions
Feature | 11 February 2016
But is the labour movement sufficiently united, independent and democratic to defend workers?
By Terry Bell
Opinion | 8 February 2016
And our current economic system is not prepared for it.
By Terry Bell
Opinion | 11 January 2016
The City of Cape Town will, from 10 December until Christmas Eve, step up safety checks on buses departing to the Eastern Cape. But some bus drivers are annoyed by the inconvenience this causes at the busiest time of the year.
Siyavuya Khaya and GroundUp staff
News | 7 December 2015
At Cosatu’s 12th national congress, delegates resolved to support a call for a national minimum wage of between R4,125 and R5,276 a month. Here is an edited summary of the congress declaration.
Cosatu
Analysis | 2 December 2015
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is hosting a social dialogue between business, labour and other constituencies over setting a national minimum wage (NMW). This is the final installment of a three part series by two University of Cape Town professors.
Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings
Analysis | 26 November 2015
On 28 October, University of Cape Town management signed an agreement with NEHAWU (the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union) which commits the university to employ catering, transport, cleaning, security, and maintenance workers who work at UCT but are employed by outside companies. This promise of “insourcing” came in response to longstanding worker demands, and a period of intense protest in which outsourced workers were joined by many students and some UCT staff.
Ben Stanwix
Analysis | 26 November 2015
The global economic crisis continues and makes for a widespread and desperate need among the lowly paid, the poor and the hungry for something better to look forward to.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 26 November 2015
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is hosting a social dialogue between business, labour and other constituencies over setting a national minimum wage (NMW). Minimum wages currently vary from sector to sector. A NMW would set a national wage floor applying to all workers irrespective of existing collective agreements and sectoral wage determinations. What level should the NMW be? This is the first of a three part series by two University of Cape Town professors.
Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings
Analysis | 24 November 2015