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Chris Hani on socialism and capitalism

Why SAFTU is expressing concerns about Nxesi’s Labour Activation Programme youtu.be/35LUJGprZ9U?si… via YouTube

Long Live the undying spirit of Chris Hani - Long Live!

Oh Noooo! We are not crooks - non of us has ever been even investigated by the police for any kind of crime. Except during the struggle days of course

Will be debating this on NewzAfrica at 21:15 tonight

SAFTU IS NOT CONFIDENT ABOUT THE LABOUR ACTIVATION PROGRAMME USING UIF FUNDS – South African Federation of Trade Unions – SAFTU saftu.org.za/archives/8072

We still have a long way to go to eradicate apartheid economic relations and therefore power relations. “Yinde lendlela esiyihambayo”

We are making a snail progress when it comes to employment of people with disabilities. The target was 5% but look at the reality that even amongst skilled workforce, only 1% is employed

As a women you slightly better working for the state to see some recognition of your worth than in the private sector

Despite the much talked about progressive legislation the reality is that inequalities remain stubbornly very high

According to the reports submitted to the Employment Equity Commission this was the situation in 2022

Despite the progressive legislations in place to ensure employment equity, pay gaps between races and gender persist. In 2017, International Labour Organisation (ILO) reported that SA had a 30.3% gender pay parity, way above the global estimate average of 20%. The median monthly…

In a single-mother headed household, impoverishment is responsible for untold psychological distresses. Many women across SA townships, living with a partner or not, usually turn to drunkardism to cushion the distresses of poverty or abusive partners. Those conditions bear a…

The two-tier systems of education, healthcare and policing are perpetual consequences and perpetual source of the historical legacies of class, race and gender inequalities shaped by South African capitalism.
Despite that many black girls drop-out of school before reaching…

Lisa Vetten observed 23 years ago, most women “finding a man and then sticking to him, is often as much a matter of economic necessity as it is a romantic choice”. It is because of economic marginalisation of unemployment and poverty, that women would often tolerate an abusive…

It is estimated that women’s unpaid home care labour is valued at $10.8 trillion worldwide. In SA, it is estimated that such labour is measurable to the value of 14% of our Gross Domestic Product. The only reason capitalists have not used their state to recognise this form of…

In the native reserves, women were automatically turned into unpaid domestic workers when their husbands were torn from them to work in the urban areas.
The previously disadvantaged had hoped that the advent of liberal democracy would usher a new socio-economic order.…

The root of unequal pay between men and women is the fledgling capitalism in the 19th century that created conditions that restricted women to only reproduce labour for the factories, whilst stripping her off the political rights.

In the colonial world, the advent of capitalism…