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This Act amends the Employment Equity Act, 1998.
This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. Abstract: This paper attempts to estimate the causal effect of government enforcement on compliance with minimum wages in South Africa, a country where considerable non-compliance exists...
Abstract: PeThere is consensus within South African society that black entrepreneurship needs to become a more widespread phenomenon. To achieve this aim, it may be helpful to know more about existing black entrepreneurial ventures. Mainly based on a survey of 90 entrepreneurs in a South African...
Before the Warwick Junction Project, which gave street vendors in Durban an infrastructure providing shelter and basic amenities, Sibongile Makhanya traded in the streets in conditions which exposed her to high personal and professional risks. Now Sibongile has moved her business to a kiosk which...
The website describes DITSELA as follows: "Ditsela is a joint project of the two largest Labour Federations in South Africa, COSATU and FEDUSA. It was created to help build the Labour Movement’s education and organisational capacity to respond to, and actively engage with the new challenges that it...
This sectoral determination makes special provision for basic conditions of employment for domestic workers, over and above the general provisions of the BCEA.
This technical brief explores issues that arose before, during and after the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, with the aim of informing the activities and interactions that organizations working with and for the working poor might engage in around major sporting events. Such major international...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.