Day: March 27, 2013

Nineteen years after the end of apartheid many things are forgotten. It is forgotten that no business was supposed to be conducted in the townships and the people living there were expected to buy everything they needed from the white-owned shops in the formal licensed business areas. So the townships

Introduction

South Africa’s recently passed labour laws are not significantly out of step with the recommendations of the OECD Jobs Study (1994)1,  except in the  area of  enhancing the flexibility of wages. In this regard, the Labour Relations Act’s promotion of sectoral collective bargaining agreements, which can be extended to non-participants,