The rights afforded to citizens generally apply to workers too – such as the rights to equality, privacy, dignity and life. But some sections in the Bill of Rights are especially useful to workers.
Section 23, the most relevant one here, is entitled “Labour relations” and reads:
Everyone has the right to fair labour practices.
Every worker has the right to form and join a trade union; to participate in the activities and programmes of a trade union; and to strike.
Every employer has the right to form and join an employers’ organisation; and to participate in the activities and programmes of an employers’ organisation.
Every trade union and every employers’ organisation…
Location: South Africa is located at the southern tip of the African continent,
bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Indian Ocean to the south and east.
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Fun South African Fact: Three different destinations make up South Africa’s capital cities. This is to represent the South African government being divided into three sections. Cape Town is the legislative capital, Pretoria is the administrative capital and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital. Interestingly, Parliament meetings take place for six months in Cape Town and six months in Pretoria.