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Migrant labour in the digital age exploited

Brazil and India are starting to win gains for ‘platform’ workers such as delivery riders. Unions in South African must support similar struggles

  • Eyaaz
8 min read
Cogta and Salga are pushing for an amendment Bill that seeks to remove the undue influence of smaller parties on the appointment of political office bearers in municipalities to be approved as law by next year’s elections. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

2024: The year democracy was tested in Africa

Coming on the heels of seven coups since 2020, 19 countries held elections but with mixed outcomes

  • Eyaaz
6 min read
BABILE, ETHIOPIA – MAY 04: Refugee camp of somali people, Oromia, Babile, Ethiopia on May 4, 2023 in Babile, Ethiopia. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)

Lessons from Ethiopia’s progressive refugee policy

Ethiopia’s public attitudes should be blueprints for other African countries

  • Eyaaz
3 min read