Opinion

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 Women’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

Vodacom and MTN: hands off WhatsApp and Skype

Companies want to restrict our access to new data services because they're harder to spy on

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Opinion | 3 February 2016

Mbeki’s reputation is not in tatters because he was aloof

It's because his policies caused hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths

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Opinion | 1 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

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Opinion | 1 February 2016

How a rural hospital has become a model of good care

If all hospitals were like this we could implement National Health Insurance tomorrow

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Opinion | 28 January 2016

Cosatu decision to host WFTU questioned

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

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Opinion | 25 January 2016