SA Labour Bulletin

Life under Covid-19 | Photography by William Matlala

While society in this life threatening pandemic has been encouraged to embrace the ‘new normal’, I am taking pictures of the South...

"How do you smile at patient number 200?" The #Care4carers campaign in South Africa

Fikile Dikolomela-Lengene This conversation was first published in the Global Labour Column where Fikile Dikolomela-Lengene (who is in...

Incorporating bomahlalela; reconceptualising unemployment and labour in the age of uncertainty

Thabang Sefalafala Dr. Thabang Sefalafala argues that COVID-19 has brought to many the tacit realisation that jobs alone cannot give...

Why did the worker not remain an artisan and an artist?

The unattended question of the worker’s ontological identity Isaac Dumi Since Covid-19 is something of a question about the future, in...

The deadly surplus

Isaac Dumi The story is a parody of the authority in the capitalist society. The idea is that the authority of this society tends to be...

We Need a New Conception of Labour

Khwezi Mabasa Khwezi Mabasa argues that the Covid-19 pandemic has amplified the economic policy debates on the need to rethinking the...

[Webinar]: “COVID testing is just like bloodsucking"

A critical analysis of bloodsuckers’ vigilante violence in Malawi with Daniel Kabunduli Nkhata Friday, 26 June, 13:00-14:00 SWOP held a...

In, out and round-about: the variegated terrain of labour responses to the C-19 pandemic in SA

Dale T. McKinley In the overall context of this historic crisis, will survivalism and the more immediate meeting of basic material needs...