Opinion

One step closer to replacing COSATU?

A new labour federation hopes to trigger a workers' party

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Opinion | 14 March 2016

“No credibility as a researcher” - a letter to News24

A former Media24 journalist criticises the country's biggest online news publication for publishing AIDS denialism

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Opinion | 11 March 2016

How a report card can help education in Philippi

We can "create the conditions to make formal education work" - Trevor Manuel

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Opinion | 11 March 2016

Left in the Dark: a blind student’s story

Education system is failing students with disability

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Opinion | 10 March 2016

Premier Zille, privatising schooling is not the answer

Many unanswered questions about pilot plan for five Western Cape schools

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Opinion | 9 March 2016

UCTโ€™s economics curriculum is in crisis

Content of courses is not relevant to South Africa

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Opinion | 9 March 2016

School students with allergies can’t always count on help

National policy necessary to ensure their safety at school

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Opinion | 9 March 2016

Mbeki confirms he is an AIDS denialist

A virus can't cause a syndrome, he says

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Opinion | 7 March 2016

The real message of International Womenโ€™s Day

The intentions of the women who founded it have been distorted

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Opinion | 7 March 2016

South Africa has a draft sanitation policy, at last

But where are the timeframes?

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Opinion | 4 March 2016

Gordhan versus the unions versus the rating agencies

Despite murmurs of support there are signs that unions are unhappy with the budget

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Opinion | 28 February 2016

How trade unions reacted to the Sona

Much point-scoring with the one good proposal lost in the noise

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Opinion | 22 February 2016

Community voices muted at Alternative Mining Indaba

By giving corporations a bigger stake, the people affected by mining are being marginalised

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Opinion | 18 February 2016

Minimum wages: too high will hurt poor people

At Cosatu's demand of R4,500 per month, we risk increasing unemployment

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Opinion | 15 February 2016

Zuma's national minimum wage "own goal"

President is placating business and wavering on policy

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Opinion | 15 February 2016

Unions justified to demand double digit pay increases

But is the labour movement sufficiently united, independent and democratic to defend workers?

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Opinion | 8 February 2016