Two significant legislative changes in South Africa promise to enhance workers' wages and combat poverty and inequality, as COSATU celebrates the progress made in this ongoing struggle.
Two recent important legislative developments have taken place in South Africa that will play important roles in raising workers’ wages, putting money in their pockets and helping to reduce our shameful levels of poverty and inequality.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has been heartened to see our efforts begin to shift the needle in this struggle.
It is important to remember the damage done to South Africa by centuries of institutional discrimination and disempowerment, particularly in wages.
It was not an accident that Black, Coloured and Indian or female workers were paid a fraction of their White or male counterparts, even when doing the same work. Confining Black workers to poorly paid jobs was a cornerstone of apartheid.
