Government has set proposed racial and gender targets for specific industries to be achieved within five years.  These targets are now open for public comment. The DA insists that this could potentially force 600 000 people out of the workplace. As the DA claims that more than almost 405 000 white, 117 000 Indian, and […]

“The social perversion created by these targets constitute a clear and urgent threat to the social fabric of South Africa. The implication is that companies operating in certain parts of the country are banned from employing even a single coloured or Indian person in a particular position. If companies defy these regulations, they will be […]

“If you are a black person still defending the DA, you are like a rented black.” These are the words of employment and labour minister Thulas Nxesi which parliament has been asked to act against. The 2023/24 department of employment and labour budget vote debate in parliament descended into chaos this week after DA MP […]

Leading retailers TFG and Truworths and industrial firm Barloworld are among the companies under the Department of Labour and Employment’s scrutiny for allegedly failing to comply with employment equity laws. Labour department chief director of statutory and advocacy services Fikiswa Mncanca-Bede alleged that the areas of non-compliance in the cases of TFG and Barloworld are […]