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Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi

Guests: Johannes Mkhabela ]]> Non-Profit Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:54:00 +0200 0 0 ‘There comes a time to make that decision to strike’ – CHEP worker’s story 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 14:25 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1598396 https://iono.fm/e/1598396
Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi

Guests: Meme Makhaula and Bongile Madundulwana ]]> Non-Profit Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:34:00 +0200 0 0 CHEP’s interdict U-turn at the Labour Court 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 2:36 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1596050 https://iono.fm/e/1596050
Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi

Guests: Harold Monare ]]> Non-Profit Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:22:00 +0200 0 0 CHEP is charging workers with AWOL for no reason 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 2:13 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1594371 https://iono.fm/e/1594371
Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi

Guest: Herold Monare ]]> Non-Profit Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:34:00 +0200 0 0 CHEP workers are standing firm on their demands 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 2:52 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1593389 https://iono.fm/e/1593389
Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi

Guest: Jack Ramaboa ]]> Non-Profit Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:18:00 +0200 0 0 CHEP striking workers getting international solidarity support 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:13 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1592038 https://iono.fm/e/1592038
Anchor: Tebadi Mmotla ]]> Non-Profit Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:32:00 +0200 0 0 CHEP strike enters its 8th day - as of 28 August 2025 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:37 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1591129 https://iono.fm/e/1591129
Host: Muzi Mzoyi

Guest: Akhona Qalangile ]]> Non-Profit Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:48:00 +0200 0 0 Update: CHEP strike continues into its second week 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 2:54 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1590095 https://iono.fm/e/1590095
Guests: Akhona Qalangile & Godfred Mohloding ]]> Non-Profit Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:37:00 +0200 0 0 Update: CHEP strike continues into its second day 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:35 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1589523 https://iono.fm/e/1589523 ended with disappointment.

Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi

Guest: Akhona Qalangile ]]> Non-Profit Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:38:00 +0200 0 0 Update: CHEP workers go on strike 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:37 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1571373 https://iono.fm/e/1571373
Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi

Guests: John Apollis, Hannah Kayisa, Lebohang Phanyeko ]]> Non-Profit Tue, 01 Jul 2025 06:55:00 +0200 0 0 Scrap the Labour Law Amendments campaign goes national 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 4:53 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1552472 https://iono.fm/e/1552472
Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi | Guests: Busisiwe Masimini; Nontembeko Luzipho; Morongwa Chaba & Samnkelo Jamjam. ]]> Non-Profit Tue, 06 May 2025 06:55:00 +0200 0 0 Workers commemorate May Day with march on Labour department 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 4:03 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1550438 https://iono.fm/e/1550438 Non-Profit Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:55:00 +0200 0 0 Workers Day Preview 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 5:07 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1547808 https://iono.fm/e/1547808 Non-Profit Tue, 22 Apr 2025 06:55:00 +0200 0 0 Pay your sacked employee, CCMA orders management company 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 4:02 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1546576 https://iono.fm/e/1546576
Host: Muzi Mzoyi | Guests: Matsoanelo Matomotomo & Jordan Mondlane

Produced by Charles Leonard; Engineered by Muzi Mzoyi ]]> Non-Profit Tue, 15 Apr 2025 06:55:00 +0200 0 0 Recycling company treating migrant workers like waste 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 4:03 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1544347 https://iono.fm/e/1544347 Even the trade union federations in Nedlac have agreed to this draft code, which will make it easier for bosses to fire workers.

Host: Muzi Mzoyi | Guests: John Appolis & Sydney Moshaoliba ]]> Non-Profit Tue, 08 Apr 2025 06:55:00 +0200 0 0 Resistance building against new anti-worker code of conduct 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 4:41 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1543456 https://iono.fm/e/1543456 The draft code is pro-employer and does away with the rights for workers to take part in disciplinary hearings before they are dismissed.
The code is a product of secret negotiations in National Economic and Labour Council (Nedlac) between April 2022 and October 2024 – it completely excluded union members, shop stewards, paralegal advice offices and union officials.
Host: Muzi Mzoyi ]]> Non-Profit Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:20:00 +0200 0 0 Update Special: Uproar over Draft Code of Good Practice on Dismissal 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 9:36 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1541720 https://iono.fm/e/1541720
Host: Muzi Mzoyi
Produced by Charles Leonard; Engineered by Muzi Mzoyi ]]> Non-Profit Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:55:00 +0200 0 0 Arbitration for Mr Sweet workers 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:29 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1539546 https://iono.fm/e/1539546
More info: www.cwao.org.za ]]> Non-Profit Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:55:00 +0200 0 0 Migrant workers say it is enough now 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 5:35 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1537424 https://iono.fm/e/1537424 Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi ]]> Non-Profit Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:55:00 +0200 0 0 Labour court tells bosses, ‘This isn’t piece work’ 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 4:49 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1536041 https://iono.fm/e/1536041 Non-Profit Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:59:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Simunye Workers Forum reports 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 5:14 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1534983 https://iono.fm/e/1534983 Non-Profit Tue, 11 Mar 2025 06:55:00 +0200 0 0 How government is trying to cut public service jobs 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:49 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1532805 https://iono.fm/e/1532805
Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi
Guests: Joshua Hlungwa; Phineas Ngobeni
Credits:
Produced and Engineered by Muzi Mzoyi; Edited by Charles Leonard
Recorded in February 2025 ]]> Non-Profit Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:50:00 +0200 0 0 Vegetable farm workers win at CCMA 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 6:24 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1530749 https://iono.fm/e/1530749 Non-Profit Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:34:00 +0200 0 0 Bosses going after their own foreign workers 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 4:32 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1529399 https://iono.fm/e/1529399 Non-Profit Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:37:00 +0200 0 0 Premier Mister sweet dismiss more than 100 workers 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 4:46 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1535046 https://iono.fm/e/1535046
Premier FMCG’s chief executive officer, Kobus Gertenbach, earns R18.8 million per year in salaries and bonuses. Yet workers at Mister Sweet are paid different amounts on a ‘case by case basis’ – there’s no basic wage, and some earn as little as R6000 per month, even after ten years in the employ of the company.

The workers, members of the Simunye Workers’ Forum trade union, calculated that a living wage would be R19 500 per month, and decided to strike for this. This was always going to be a tough demand to win, especially at a company which sees no need to negotiate wage increases with unions, instead getting agreement from a tiny minority union to accept an inflation adjustment and then imposing this on the majority of workers.

However, the R19 500 living wage demand was reasonable and affordable for Mister Sweet. It also mattered in the South African context. ]]> Non-Profit Mon, 25 Nov 2024 13:10:00 +0200 0 0 Updates: End of Mr Sweet strike 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 4:34 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1535321 https://iono.fm/e/1535321
Hosted by the CWAO and Foundation for Human Rights, this five-day workshop is for activists (Human Rights Defenders) from 30 organisations who are all on the frontline of defending workers against exploitation and abuse.

We all know that casual work in South Africa takes the form of continued ‘cheap Black labour’. This prevents millions of people from realising their rights to lives of dignity and respect. The workshop aims to train activists to represent and advise workers. After the workshop, the organisations will set up a legal referral system where activists can engage with attorneys for further advice and guidance on legal matters.

The aim of Labour Rights Week is to increase human rights defenders’ knowledge and skills so that they:

- Deepen their knowledge of the legal foundation of worker rights
- Develop their skills to identify specific sources of worker rights
- Increase their prospects to represent casual workers in dispute resolution agencies such as the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA)
- Expand their awareness of psychosocial support and cyberspace safety as human rights defenders. ]]> Non-Profit Fri, 22 Nov 2024 08:07:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Labour Rights Week 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 6:47 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1535326 https://iono.fm/e/1535326
Muzi Mzoyi sat down with John Appolis of the Casual Workers Advice Office, who broke down the new Amendments, while explaining what they mean for the reality of workers. ]]> Non-Profit Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:28:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Labour Law Amendment Bill 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 20:37 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1535339 https://iono.fm/e/1535339 Non-Profit Fri, 25 Oct 2024 08:54:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi: Woolies boss was paid 1,300 times as much as a shop floor worker 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 20:37 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1535408 https://iono.fm/e/1535408 Non-Profit Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Two months into strike 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:44 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1535406 https://iono.fm/e/1535406 Non-Profit Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Salga, unions’ five-year wage deal locks workers into poverty 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 6:39 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1535417 https://iono.fm/e/1535417
In this episode we highlight one of the protesting workers experience with Mr Sweet.

What do you do if you get injured at work and can no longer perform your duties? Where do you go? Section 27 of the South African Constitution states that everyone has the right to have access to social security, including, if they are unable to support themselves and their dependants. COIDA, which stands for the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases act is that law that is supposed to assist workers when they get injured whilst on Duty. ]]> Non-Profit Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - A worker's story 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 5:59 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1535430 https://iono.fm/e/1535430 foreign national employees to stop coming to work if they do not have work permits or Asylum Seekers documents. They have been given two weeks or kiss their jobs a goodbye. This is even though some of them have been working on this farm for more than 10 years without these documents being an issue. ]]> Non-Profit Fri, 11 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: ZGG foreign national workers barred from work 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:37 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1535692 https://iono.fm/e/1535692
Collectively, we are alarmed and dismayed at the highly abusive behaviour of Mister Sweet against the workers who have been on strike since 19 August 2024. Mister Sweet is behaving like an Apartheid employer and does not deserve the business from our movements.

Over the past week, the ruthless Mister Sweet has committed these egregious illegal actions:

Forced workers to operate dangerous cutting and cooking machinery without training, resulting in several workers sustaining injuries including having their fingers chopped off.

Mister Sweet bosses made late night phone calls to workers who are foreign nationals threatening them with instant dismissal if they do not leave the lawful strike and return to work.

Mister Sweet bosses enticed some of the striking permanent workers to return to work and once they are alone, inside the factory, forcing them to sign away their permanent contracts in exchange for 9 month contracts or be dismissed.
Mister Sweet bosses have forced workers to sign unconstitutional contracts whereby the workers promise to leave the Simunye Workers’ Forum union and not join any other union for three years.

Mister Sweet bosses have brought bunk beds into the factory and have tricked replacement workers, with promises of ‘accommodation’, into moving into these unsanitary conditions where they are sleeping in the factory and unable to go home each day.

We, the 25 social movements listed below, are further disgusted that the CEO of Premier Group, which owns Mister Sweet, paid himself nearly R19 million last year (A “basic salary” of R7.7 million and bonuses of more than R11 million = R18 874 000).

This is compared to a workers’ salary of R6000 per month (lowest) or R8500 per month (average workers’ pay). The increase to the pay of CEO JJ Gertenbach was almost 37%, but he expects the workers to accept 6%.

The vertical wage gap (difference between CEO’s pay and the average wage of the workers who produce the sweets) is 185 – meaning that the CEO is paid 185 times more than the average worker.

Workers at Mister Sweet are demanding a living wage of R19 500. Workers have been on strike for six weeks. We will therefore ramp up our boycott of all Mister Sweet products. The struggle for a living wage is one that all workers can support. We are fully behind Mister Sweet workers as they move forward against the Premier bosses. Support the strike! Forward to R19 500! Forward to a living wage! Don’t buy Mr Sweet!

Central Karoo Farm Communities Association (Western Cape)
Housing Assembly (Western Cape)
Independent Komani Resident Association (Eastern Cape)
Intlungu Yase Matyotyombeni (Western Cape)
Kwakwatsi Advice Office (Free State)
Maokeng Advice and Research Centre (Free State)
Metsimoholo Community Association (Free State)
Mining Affected Communities United in Action (National)
Potchefstroom Informal Settlement (North West)
Surplus Peoples’ Project (Western Cape)
Labour Community Media Forum (National)
Sovereign Agroecology Food Empowerment (Northern Cape)
Support Centre for Land Change (Western Cape and Eastern Cape)
Sundays River Valley Farm Workers Forum (Eastern Cape)
Valley FM (Western Cape)
Witzenburg Justice Coalition (Western Cape)
Workers World Media Productions (National)
Casual Workers Advice Office (Gauteng)
Simunye Workers Forum (Gauteng)
Surplus People Project (Western Cape)
Women On Farms Project (Western Cape)
Unpaid Benefits Campaign (Gauteng)
Thlolong Legal Advice Centre (Free State)
Ikageng Advisory Centre (North West)
Khanya College (Gauteng) ]]> Non-Profit Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:15:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Latest Press Statement 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:23 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1535447 https://iono.fm/e/1535447
Collectively, we are alarmed and dismayed at the highly abusive behaviour of Mister Sweet against the workers who have been on strike since 19 August 2024. Mister Sweet is behaving like an Apartheid employer and does not deserve the business from our movements.

Over the past week, the ruthless Mister Sweet has committed these egregious illegal actions:

Forced workers to operate dangerous cutting and cooking machinery without training, resulting in several workers sustaining injuries including having their fingers chopped off.

Mister Sweet bosses made late night phone calls to workers who are foreign nationals threatening them with instant dismissal if they do not leave the lawful strike and return to work.

Mister Sweet bosses enticed some of the striking permanent workers to return to work and once they are alone, inside the factory, forcing them to sign away their permanent contracts in exchange for 9 month contracts or be dismissed.
Mister Sweet bosses have forced workers to sign unconstitutional contracts whereby the workers promise to leave the Simunye Workers’ Forum union and not join any other union for three years.

Mister Sweet bosses have brought bunk beds into the factory and have tricked replacement workers, with promises of ‘accommodation’, into moving into these unsanitary conditions where they are sleeping in the factory and unable to go home each day.

We, the 25 social movements listed below, are further disgusted that the CEO of Premier Group, which owns Mister Sweet, paid himself nearly R19 million last year (A “basic salary” of R7.7 million and bonuses of more than R11 million = R18 874 000).

This is compared to a workers’ salary of R6000 per month (lowest) or R8500 per month (average workers’ pay). The increase to the pay of CEO JJ Gertenbach was almost 37%, but he expects the workers to accept 6%.

The vertical wage gap (difference between CEO’s pay and the average wage of the workers who produce the sweets) is 185 – meaning that the CEO is paid 185 times more than the average worker.

Workers at Mister Sweet are demanding a living wage of R19 500. Workers have been on strike for six weeks. We will therefore ramp up our boycott of all Mister Sweet products. The struggle for a living wage is one that all workers can support. We are fully behind Mister Sweet workers as they move forward against the Premier bosses. Support the strike! Forward to R19 500! Forward to a living wage! Don’t buy Mr Sweet!

Central Karoo Farm Communities Association (Western Cape)
Housing Assembly (Western Cape)
Independent Komani Resident Association (Eastern Cape)
Intlungu Yase Matyotyombeni (Western Cape)
Kwakwatsi Advice Office (Free State)
Maokeng Advice and Research Centre (Free State)
Metsimoholo Community Association (Free State)
Mining Affected Communities United in Action (National)
Potchefstroom Informal Settlement (North West)
Surplus Peoples’ Project (Western Cape)
Labour Community Media Forum (National)
Sovereign Agroecology Food Empowerment (Northern Cape)
Support Centre for Land Change (Western Cape and Eastern Cape)
Sundays River Valley Farm Workers Forum (Eastern Cape)
Valley FM (Western Cape)
Witzenburg Justice Coalition (Western Cape)
Workers World Media Productions (National)
Casual Workers Advice Office (Gauteng)
Simunye Workers Forum (Gauteng)
Surplus People Project (Western Cape)
Women On Farms Project (Western Cape)
Unpaid Benefits Campaign (Gauteng)
Thlolong Legal Advice Centre (Free State)
Ikageng Advisory Centre (North West)
Khanya College (Gauteng) ]]> Non-Profit Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Latest Press Statement 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:23 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1536017 https://iono.fm/e/1536017
A vessel suspected by the Namibian authorities to be carrying military cargo intended for Israeli use in the ongoing war in Gaza has been blocked from docking in the southern African country. ]]> Non-Profit Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Namibia Blocks Ship 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:44 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1536014 https://iono.fm/e/1536014
More than 150 mostly women farm workers and supporters braved gale force winds and heavy rainfall to march through the streets of Cape Town calling for a ban on harmful pesticides. ]]> Non-Profit Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Farm Workers March against pesticides 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:21 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1536018 https://iono.fm/e/1536018
Mister Sweet has also allegedly breached s17 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act by continuing to keep the factory running using untrained casual workers while failing to make sure that they have health and safety officers.

Last week a casual worker who had no experience or training was using the cutter. It was not moving sweets and because the worker had not been trained on what to do, he tried to push the sweets under the cutter and that is how his finger was cut off, workers say.

Workers also report that casuals are operating the cooker, which can be dangerous, without training. ]]> Non-Profit Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Injured Workers 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 4:34 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1536019 https://iono.fm/e/1536019 Non-Profit Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mister Sweet Protest - Week 4 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 4:54 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1536021 https://iono.fm/e/1536021
Johannesburg Labour Court judge J Daniels recently ruled that the employer was unable to show any link between the alleged violence they complained of and the strikers. Therefore the company was not entitled to interdict the strike or the strikers.

Judge Daniels also acknowledged that the strike was a lawful and protected strike. ]]> Non-Profit Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:32:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Labour Court victory 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 4:56 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1536025 https://iono.fm/e/1536025 Non-Profit Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:37:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Actions of Solidarity 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 9:24 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1536026 https://iono.fm/e/1536026
Workers continue to picket outside the Mr Sweet factory as they demand a minimum wage of R19 500 and an across the board increase of R1500. ]]> Non-Profit Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:45:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Week 3 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 2:48 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1536028 https://iono.fm/e/1536028 Non-Profit Tue, 03 Sep 2024 10:47:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - A workers' story 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 2:53 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1536029 https://iono.fm/e/1536029 Non-Profit Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - A workers' story 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 10:14 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1536052 https://iono.fm/e/1536052
Simunye Workers' Forum condemns bosses for locking workers out and threatening workers with reduction in wage offer and dismissal. ]]> Non-Profit Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:20:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Press Statement 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:49 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1536061 https://iono.fm/e/1536061 Non-Profit Sat, 24 Aug 2024 11:25:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet workers protest 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 14:00 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1537848 https://iono.fm/e/1537848 Non-Profit Thu, 15 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Household Affordability Index 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 14:00 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1537866 https://iono.fm/e/1537866 Non-Profit Thu, 08 Aug 2024 11:30:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Reality of asylum seekers 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 4:58 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1539842 https://iono.fm/e/1539842
Strike statistics and analyses are therefore critical for anyone interested in building the workers' movement in particular and working class struggle more generally.

Our independently researched live Strike Barometer is updated almost daily as strikes occur. ]]> Non-Profit Thu, 08 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Strike Barometer 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 5:37 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1537882 https://iono.fm/e/1537882 Non-Profit Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:36:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Olympic Games 2024 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 5:30 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1539850 https://iono.fm/e/1539850
The Casual Workers Advice Office, Simunye Workers Forum and Simunye Women Workers Forum know the challenges community members face in day-to-day life and we are aware that things are difficult economically for the masses.
We therefore invite parents/guardians whose children will be attending Grade 1 and Grade 8 in 2025 to use the CWAO computer centre in Germiston to register their children’s applications online.

We are aware that parents and guardians are finding it difficult to register their children for school and that the online system is difficult to access and costs money.
From June 2024, CWAO will offer support by providing help with your online applications FOR FREE.

Grade 12 learners and parents or guardians who want to apply for 2025 university admission are also invited to use the computer centre. Some universities are already open for 2025 applications. ]]> Non-Profit Thu, 11 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates: School Registration Assistance 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 4:08 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1536004 https://iono.fm/e/1536004
There were 83 strikes in 2023, a slight decrease over the 86 strikes we documented in 2022. This continues the pattern of relatively low number of strikes annually since the 165 strikes of 2018. Forty one of the 83 strikes occurred in the public sector. This figure excludes at least seven strikes at hospitals, universities, private companies contracted by municipalities and institutions such as Productivity SA and the State Information Technology Agency. Fifty of the strikes (60.24%) were wildcat and 33 (40.2%) were protected strikes. Seventeen workplace related actions were recorded in addition to the 83 strikes.

Produced by the Casual Workers' Advice Office and Simunye Workers' Forum ]]> Non-Profit Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 The Casual Workers’ Advice Office Strike Barometer for 2023 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:28 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1539852 https://iono.fm/e/1539852 Non-Profit Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Update 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 3:46 Updates https://iono.fm/e/1539856 https://iono.fm/e/1539856
The second half of the episode deals with the latest stats around the food basket index for the month.

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The national minimum wage entrenches Apartheid’s cheap Black labour - the working class does not need to know the food poverty line, the lower-bound poverty line or the upper-bound poverty line to know that it is starving.

For comment/interviews: CWAO Organiser Sydney Moshoaliba on 072 550 4550.

The 1 March increase in the national minimum wage from R25.42 to R27.45 has been hailed in many quarters, most particularly by Cosatu. This alone should make us suspicious, given the federation’s consistently anti-worker politics.

Any increase in workers’ wages is to be welcomed. But it is necessary to remind ourselves of where the national minimum wage comes from and what it’s real effect has been on workers and the working class. The National Minimum Wage Act came into effect in January 2019 with only an hourly minimum wage of R20, despite the earlier talk of it also including a R3500 monthly minimum wage. The argument in support of the very low hourly rate was that it would help lift over three million workers out of poverty. It would also serve as a basis for collective bargaining – in other words, workers could mobilise and bargain for an even higher minimum wage.

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In today's update we share the latest developments around the dispute between workers and owner of fresh produce farm, Zanthe Fresh. We also share an announcement around the outreach efforts taking place at The Casual Workers Advice Office. ]]> Non-Profit Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Buwa Basebetsi Updates 0 0 Muzi Mzoyi, Charles Leonard, Tebadi Mmotla full 6:08 Updates