Articles for Terry Bell
Unions justified to demand double digit pay increases
But is the labour movement sufficiently united, independent and democratic to defend workers?
By Terry Bell
Opinion | 8 February 2016
World leaders fail to face our biggest economic crisis
No change in mindset at World Economic Forum in Davos means job losses will continue
By Terry Bell
Opinion | 1 February 2016
Cosatu decision to host WFTU questioned
25 January 2016 OPINION
Federation's hosting of controversial congress might cause rift with overseas trade unions
WEF has no answers for job losses
Klaus Schwab has blinkered view of robotics revolution and employment
By Terry Bell
Opinion | 25 January 2016
Echoes of 1998 in the student protests
Time for a new economic policy
By Terry Bell
Opinion | 20 January 2016
Robots will replace most jobs
And our current economic system is not prepared for it.
By Terry Bell
Opinion | 11 January 2016
Cosatu is not dying, but better leadership is needed
The American writer and humourist Mark Twain once wrote, following an erroneous report of his death, that it was an exaggeration. The same can be said about Cosatu.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 7 December 2015
Cosatu can learn from Corbyn to avoid slipping into irrelevance
“The ANC came before democracy.” This statement by President Jacob Zuma was obviously incorrect since the concept of democracy pre-dated the formation of the ANC in 1912 by about 2,500 years.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 30 November 2015
Sunday Times editor ‘was a spy’
One of the most successful agents of the apartheid state was the editor in chief of the country’s leading Sunday newspaper, the Sunday Times. This claim is contained in a book by veteran journalist John Matisonn to be released this week.
Terry Bell
News | 30 November 2015