PowerFM Interview: Excluded from the Law – Informal economy mothers left without maternity benefits
Across South Africa, more than 40% of the country’s 1.9 million self-employed informal workers are women, yet they remain invisible in the eyes of the law. If you are pregnant and selling food in a township market, or running a small business to keep your household afloat, you are excluded from maternity benefits that formal […]
SmileFM Interview: Why mothers in the informal economy cannot afford to take maternity leave
Across South Africa, more than 40% of the country’s 1.9 million self-employed informal workers are women, yet they remain invisible in the eyes of the law. If you are pregnant and selling food in a township market, or running a small business to keep your household afloat, you are excluded from maternity benefits that formal […]
Cape Talk Interview: When will maternity protection cover all South African women?
South Africa’s labour laws exclude millions of self-employed and informal workers from maternity and parental benefits. For women selling food in townships or running small businesses, pregnancy can mean losing their only source of income, with no safety net to buy food. Clarence Ford speaks to Julie Mentor, Project Lead at Embrace, the Movement for […]
Cheap alcohol is the problem
Business Day’s article quoting SAB CEO Richard Rivett-Carnac frames minimum unit pricing as a threat to the poor, yet the real threat is the torrent of cheap, supersized beer flooding low-income communities (“Minimum pricing on booze will fuel illegal market, says SAB boss”, August 7). Even if SAB’s own estimate is right and illicit alcohol […]