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 Mothers.
The MSG Advocacy Coalition is a growing collective of NGOs and researchers with members including Embrace, Children’s Institute, the Equality Collective, DG Murray Trust (DGMT), Grow Great, Ilifa Labantwana, SAMRC/Centre for Health Economics & Decision Science – PRICELESS SA, HEALA, Amandla.mobi and the Health Systems Research Unit at SAMRC.
