TheSouth African law relating to sick leave is regulated by the Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997. This statute gives an allowance that one may be absent from work as a result of sickness, and in order to avoid abuse of this law, it further states that such an employee has...
South African law recognises the doctrine of constructive dismissal. A resignation will be regarded as a dismissal where an employee terminates his/her contract of employment because the employer made continued employment intolerable. In constructive dismissal cases the employee concerned is deemed to...
with an emphasis on countries on the African continent, in order to foster better South-to-South relations, and for South Africans to be able to situate themselves within the world and its history.
Just as the German settlers, soldiers and bureaucrats were not merely pas-sive victims of their African adversaries during the first days of the war when theHerero had seized the initiative, but rather developed defensive strategies, so theHerero too reacted flexibly to developments once the ...
It was “designed” by a cabal of 15 economists, 2 from the World Bank and the rest from big South African banks and conservative think tanks. Typically the language was one we are all now heartily sick of: “greater labour market flexibility”, “foreign direct investment”, “sound ...
Meanwhile South African ministers in the security cluster met on Tuesday and made stern pronouncements on clamping down on the issue of illegal migration. “With regards to hiring of undocumented foreign nationals, we will clamp down on private business owners who do not abide by the labour an...
However, with the advent of the Arab Spring and the rebellion against Gadaffi in 2011, a space was opened up for migrants escaping the Horn of Africa and North African regimes such as Tunisia to cross the Mediterranean. With internal conflict and the forcible expulsion of sub-Saharan Africans ...
Bishop Thami Ngcana from the Council of African Independent Churches (CAIC), in turn, makes the connection with international law and the definition of apartheid in the Rome Statute. His statement reaffirm that it is time for the international community to recognize Israel as an apartheid state...
In 1965, just after the Rhodesian UDI, Betty wrote to my mother and mentioned a mutual cousin, Willie Hannan, who was at that tome a Scottish Labour MP, and, according to Betty, “a one-man-one-vote bastard and a sick leftist”. A few weeks later I skipped South Africa to escape ...
While maternal and child health is one of the top four public health priorities of the South African Department of Health, the emphasis is however, on decreasing physical morbidity and mortality [10]. However, in the face of a 12 month treatment gap of between 76% to 85% for people with...