BY PAUL FAUVET Maputo — In 2013, there were 13,850 violations of Mozambican labour legislation that came to the notice of the General Inspectorate...

By UN News Service Noting that more and more people around the world are taking to the streets to lay claim to their rights,...

The G8 last year launched a strategy aimed at boosting food production called the “New Alliance”. The idea is that governments free up land...

Inequality on the continent has grown in the past decade as tax systems have failed to redistribute wealth, says Christian Aid. Soaring economic growth...

Oxfam finds 85 elites as rich as 3.5-billion people The world’s wealthiest people aren’t known for travelling by bus, but if they fancied a...

The National Budget 2014 is a budget for the rich, the financiers, investors and credit rating agencies, argues the Alternative Information and Development Centre...

Sapa, Karabo Ngoepe Numsa says it will, “at the appropiate time”, launch a political party – United Front and Movement for Socialism – aimed...

By Johann Redelinghuys The casualisation of employment is increasing. What used to be a practice for the occasional employment of people like musicians journalists...

By Mmusi Maimane Unemployment levels in South Africa continue to climb steadily. Critically, more South Africans are joining the ranks of the unemployed, our...

By Johann Redelinghuys  More than 50% of the country’s youth is unemployed. Every year another wave of school leavers adds to this number. Many...

By Johann Redelinghuys The World Economic Forum has identified wealth disparity as the “most probable menace to the global economy during the next decade”....

South Africa’s platinum mineworkers crowded into a stadium near the mining town of Rustenburg on Thursday in a defiant mood following a new wage...