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In recent years, research Wright and colleagues led has highlighted how prolonged heat exposure places outdoor workers, children, older people and low-income communities at increased risk of dehydration, heat stress, respiratory illness and other adverse health outcomes. The risks are expected to intensify as temperatures continue to rise. (Envato Elements)

Extreme heat is becoming Southern Africa’s defining climate and health threat, report warns

Extreme heat is no longer a future problem. A major new report warns it is intensifying inequality, illness and climate vulnerability across Southern Africa and the worst-hit are…

“While Africa watches war, the real disruption is unfolding in supply chains, finance, labour and education — dividing the digitally prepared from the rest of the world”. Photo: Supplied

While Africa watches war, the real divide is digital

While global tensions play out in real time, their lasting effect will not be measured only in territory or political outcomes. It will be measured in how economies are reshaped,…

The general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), Irvin Jim, was candid in claiming that he did not view the MK Party as a socialist-oriented party.

Former Numsa leader accuses Irvin Jim of perjury and abuse of power

Ruth Mamolaba Ntlokotse says Jim filed a false affidavit in court and suppressed internal dissent, raising questions about governance and accountability

Numsa spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said the third death warning she recently received while on her way to parliament was the tipping point behind her decision to quit her job.

Numsa concerned about staff safety after spokesperson Hlubi-Majola resigns because of death threats

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa did not say whether it had opened a case with the police

Numsa spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said the third death warning she recently received while on her way to parliament was the tipping point behind her decision to quit her job.

This is the third time my life has been threatened, Numsa spokesperson says as she quits

Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said she had received one of the death threats while travelling to parliament

Former Anglo underground mine workers in Newtown, Johannesburg. Photo: Brian Sokutu

Mine communities group launches campaign against Anglo over plight of former workers

The Mining Affected Communities United in Action says the mining giant must ‘take full responsibility for unpaid debts and abandoned communities’

Digital content may seem harmless but children are being commodified and South Africa’s legal framework has not evolved to include the digital economy.

Pixels and protection: Strengthening legal frameworks against digital child labour

In many cases, the digital economy presents a perceived lifeline for families who are struggling to make ends meet

New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a press conference, following his first cabinet meeting at Downing Street. (Photo by Claudia Greco-WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Labour landslide: But Keir Starmer’s UK win is overshadowed by huge challenges

Labour faces the electorate’s expectations of transformative change amid economic hardship, with the populist Reform Party snapping at its heels

An  Israeli soldier sits on a tank before entering into the Gaza Strip on April 10, 2024 in Southern Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

US support for genocidal Israel increases isolation

Despite the numerous wars that have been perpetrated by the West since the ICC came into being, no Western leader has ever been indicted by the court

The rise in people employed in the sector is driven by increased production in field crops, forestry and aquaculture. (Photo by MUJAHID SAFODIEN / AFP)

Agriculture increases jobs by 10%, 2023 Quarterly Labour Force Survey shows

The rise in people employed in the sector is driven by increased production in field crops, forestry and aquaculture

DDP senior programs officer Sphamandla Brian Mhlongo
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The role of labour movements in consolidating democracy and development

‘We don’t have to lose jobs to breathe clean air’

Ramaphosa is stumbling, but he won’t walk away

South Africa is in the dire position of possessing a weak leader and no potential replacements

Unhappy: President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his State of the Nation address in February the social compact had 100 days to deal with unemployment and to boost economic growth. Nine months later, this has not been achieved. (GCIS)

SA’s social compact has stalled

While the president’s predicament is creating uncertainty, the work of forging a durable social compact has struggled to gain traction. Why?

Both employer and employee classes want government services for themselves and likewise want to pay minimal taxes.

A deficit spending scam destroyed Liz Truss, UK’s prime minister. Who is next?

UK governments borrow money for deficit spending from corporations and the rich. But the very beneficiaries of the tax cuts Truss proposed were these ‘investors’, who baulked

Should South Africa experiment with a four-day work week?

It would be a boost to productivity if employees could deliver the same product or service, but in 20% less time

Saldanha Bay, West Coast, South Africa, Railway trucks carrying iron ore from Sishen to Saldanha Bay terminal on the West Coast of South Africa. (Photo by: Peter Titmuss/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Strike sets Transnet back — again

The industrial action is the latest in a series of economy-hitting upsets for the state logistics company

A woman holds a banner ‘Capitalism Is the Crisis’. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

It is time to topple the false gods of capitalism

The market is the pillar of capitalist ideology, yet it is just another human institution invented and reinvented periodically across human history

Why is it bad that another worker, if they so wish, can undercut an established worker by being paid less?

Competition is good in business, so why not in the labour market?

Why is it bad that another worker, if they so wish, can undercut an established worker by being paid less?

ANC delegates from the Mpumalanga province have called on government to consider communities dependent on coal mining when transitioning to cleaner energy. (Dean Hutton/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Energy transition from coal will cost jobs, Mantashe says

The ‘coal fundamentalist’ energy minister says more research on cleaner coal is needed

About 32%  of the population is unemployed; of the employed, 35.9% are in informal work; and of the formally employed, nearly 40% earn less than R3,500 a month. Photo: Phill Magakoe/AFP

Jobless crisis: 35 in 100 are out of work

It’s not sustainable for every employed person to support three others, analysts say