Wednesday 13 July 2011

Mandela Day

The great Nelson Mandela need no introduction except to the ones that are born about 2/3 years ago and globally he is an icon.  I am one of those who are proud to be South African and who look up to people like Madiba and say he is hero and a role Model.

The sacrifices from him including the 27 years spent in jail and the sacrifices of other freedom fighters for us to have a democracy and the opportunities we have today cant be measured, the day (Mandela Day) is for everyone to compromise 67 minutes to emulate what he did for us as South Africans, yes, were possible one can give more than 67 minutes to the community.

I encourage everyone to get involved and a bit that you contribute will come a long way and also change us as people to be better and more so the opportunity to be like the greats.

Share with us you activities on the day. Monday July 18th

Labour Brokers is not good for workers

The Labour Brokers

It is sad that even today we still talk labour brokers in South Africa and I support the Unions like NUMSA, Solidarity, etc. in the demand of total ban of this system of employment.  The people are being abused, robbed and they legal rights as employees are being ignored. 

Employer avoid their responsibility by employing labour brokers, yes some people are saying at least people are getting jobs because of labour brokerage but that is not true because labour brokers dong create employment but fill existing posts. There is a clear distinction between labour brokerage and employment agency, employment agency is just a recruitment and after linking a job seeker with the employer and receiving their commission they are through and the job seeker if employed is employed by the employer and not the agency whereas the Labour brokerage means the labour broker get a deal with the employers, labour broker is the employer and in most cases the rights of workers are ignored and they are oppressed.  Some people are saying there should be measures to regulate this labour brokerage instead of banning it, still the question is why should one be employed by a secondary employer to work for primary employer, why the middle men?