Instances like South Africa, where the top 10% owns 90% of the entire country's wealth, ... African Union headquarters which they had built and completely funded – a testament to the fact Chinese ambitions in Africa are centered around exploitation, not establishing diplomatic relations. China's rapidly expanding economy requires the ...

Both the worker and client are still liable for prosecution and punishment and are forced to operate underground. The South African Law Reform Commission first reviewed the law banning ...

Children in South Africa are subjected to the worst forms of child labor, including in commercial sexual exploitation, sometimes as a result of human trafficking, forced begging, and use in illicit activities. (1-3) The 2019 Survey of Activities of Young People found that 5 percent of children are engaged in child labor with the percentage of ...

Credit: International Labor Rights Forum. In Western Africa, cocoa is a commodity crop grown primarily for export; cocoa is the Ivory Coast's primary export and makes up about half of the country's agricultural exports in volume. [15] Cocoa was originally brought to Western Africa by European chocolate companies seeking to grow it where labor was …

Before Covid-19 and lockdown, South Africans employed around a million domestic workers. The pandemic, however, played its part in 250,000 workers losing …

Conny Buthelezi from the Sisonke National Worker Movement in South Africa, said workers faced abuse, violence and other forms of exploitation, which could be economic and gender-based violence (GBV) in nature. "As of 1957, work was criminalised in terms of the Sexual Offences Act of 1957. Clients have to pay lots of …

Definitions regarding work and slavery are briefly discussed, and the anti-trafficking law in South Africa is looked at—in order to protect the victims of slavery and prosecute the perpetrators. The necessity of decriminalising work in South Africa, among others, to respect the dignity of workers, is also discussed.

But enriching a few people through agents while exploiting poor black people is much too convenient. Just as they were exploited in Apartheid South Africa, they must just accept that their cheap black labour is good for the employers. But maybe there is hope for exploited workers. Deputy President Ramaphosa suggests that the National …

West Africa is known for producing one-third of the world's cocoa, mostly in West Africa including Ivory Coast and Ghana. But, most of it is obtained with unfair trade deals and child slavery.

Commercial farm workers in South Africa endured centuries of exploitation and abuse until the 1990s, when progressive legislation was promulgated that confers rights to workers aimed at improving ...

While the industry's fourteen mills employ a total of about 5,000 workers, upwards of 74,000 workers render their labour to plant, weed, and harvest the vast expanses of cane – around 430,000 hectares – that stretch across the rolling hills of South Africa's eastern seaboard. Almost none of these workers are unionised.

Before 1994, the exploitation of workers was a feature of life in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on cheap labour, workers had to contend with the migrant labour …

In South Africa, work is often over simplified and conflated with human trafficking despite a lack of clear evidence to support this assertion, allowing migrant workers to be constructed ...

The exploitation of workers was a feature of life in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on cheap labour: workers had to contend with the migrant labour system, passes and influx control, job reservation, poverty wages and oppressive laws.

In South Africa itself, liberal and radical intellectuals denounced an unjust and unsustainable political system. Labour, citizenship, and society were linked in complex …

Human rights for all. South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. Reuters/Mike Hutchings. workers in South Africa are all potential criminals due to the country's regressive laws. But ...

Domestic workers in South Africa face multiple dimensions of social exclusion at present – not resolved by the end of the apartheid system. Kim and Olsen ( …

For centuries, commercial farm workers in South Africa have endured exploitation and abuse, facing violations of their labour rights that continue to plague the agriculture sector. Despite legal ...

Introduction. The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa. Following the demise of the ICU in the early 1940s, the mine workers were the first to challenge not only their employers, but the racist policies of the segregationist state of Jan Smuts.

PRETORIA, 08 February 2021 – More than 95 per cent of children in South Africa have access to the Internet regularly, but their risky online behaviour can expose them to online violence, exploitation and abuse, according to the 'SA Kids Online Study' released by UNICEF last year. The 'SA Kids Online Study' shows that children ...

A better understanding of the demographic, socio-economic factors and risks of HIV acquisition is required to guide appropriate public health interventions targeting young workers in South Africa. A cross-sectional survey of Workers (FSWs), using a chain referral sampling method, was conducted across 12 sites in …

The research, which focused on the construction and domestic sectors in India, China, Mexic, South Korea, South Africa, and the United States, found that many workers suffer from a lack of ...

Data from Statistics South Africa show that domestic workers suffered the worst rates of job losses than any other sector/occupation in the country between the first …

The same year the wine industry contributed an estimated 26,223 million rand (US$3,105 million) to South Africa 's gross domestic product, with over half of that sum remaining in the Western Cape. The industry also directly and indirectly supported an estimated 275,606 jobs in South Africa. The importance of the wine industry to tourism ...

black African women domestic workers in a post-apartheid South Africa, Development in Practice, DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2022.2115977 To link to this article: https://doi.or g/10.1080/09614524.2022. ...

Women are highly concentrated in this sector, with 80% of domestic workers in South Africa being . [2] The benefits afforded through this arrangement include cash payments and accommodation at the job site, which solves a logistical problem of finding accommodation, but can also provide protection from or mediation with …

Notwithstanding the economic benefits of South Africa's migration diplomacy with Botswana and Lesotho, there were also challenges, that include among others, exploitation of mine workers, deplorable living and working conditions of mine workers, capital accumulation and loss of agricultural development in Botswana and …

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has called on the government to intervene after the death of a worker at a Sedibeng-based steel plant this week. The union asked the Department of Employment and Labour to investigate health and safety standards and the alleged exploitation of workers at SA Steel Mills.

This report focuses on foreign national migrant workers from sub-Saharan Africa, north Africa and Asia, employed in low-skilled, often seasonal or temporary jobs, mostly in the agricultural sector. Amnesty International's research found evidence of instances of widespread and/or severe labour exploitation, in violation of Italy's

She has conducted ethnographic research with trafficked persons in South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines and Cambodia. Her current research projects include a study of justice for victims of seafood slavery and labour exploitation of migrant construction workers, both focusing on Southeast Asia and the Pacific.