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World of work and unemployment survey: a social & economic justice indicator for working and jobless poor in South Africa

Towards social justice : an elusive and a challenging endeavour

Mainstreaming social justice through radio

Teachers’ bio-geographical experiences of social (in)justice within South African schools

  • Authors: Perumal, Juliet Christine
  • Date: 2014
  • Subjects: Teachers - South Africa , Social justice - South Africa
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:6138 , ISBN 978-84-617-2484-0 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/13181
  • Description: Teachers from various countries on the African continent are being employed in the South African education system. The bio-geographical identities, ideologies and pedagogies that this diverse teacher cohort brings to the educational landscape warrants exploration into the varying experiences, interpretations and enactments of social justice that they experience within the South African context. This paper draws on the personal and professional experiences of teachers from South Africa, India, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and Cameroon, to denaturalize the unproblematic way in which teachers are linked to school contexts. It draws on Buell’s (in Raill) [1] contention that place gestures in three directions, namely: (i) towards environmental materiality; (ii) towards social perceptions or constructions of identity; and (iii) towards affect or bond. It explores teachers’ personal and professional experiences in relation to Fraser’s [2] conceptions of social justice. This qualitative study contributes to research on critical pedagogies of place, which view education as a contextualized social process that shape teachers’ identities, and behaviors. This paper aims to: (i) sketch the biographical-geographical, and socio-cultural impulses that frame the participants’ personal and professional identities; and (ii) examine the techniques that these teachers employ in order to navigate their current situatedness presents them.
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Trade union representatives and the boundaries of lawful union activities

  • Authors: Apfel, Joshua Charles
  • Date: 2015-07-14
  • Subjects: Labor unions - Law and legislation - South Africa , Social justice - South Africa
  • Type: Thesis
  • Identifier: uj:13704 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/13969
  • Description: LL.M. (Labour Law) , According to Davies and Freedland, “the relation between an employer and an isolated employee or worker is typically a relation between a bearer of power and one who is not a bearer of power”. In other words, the employment relationship is characterised by an imbalance of power and is inherently unjust if employees do not act collectively. Labour law, from a social justice perspective, serves as “a tool to further the interests of social justice” for employees and serves to equalise the balance of power in the relationship between the employer and employees. From a social justice perspective, trade unions and trade union representatives fulfil a vital function as “a primary vehicle through which to achieve social justice” in the workplace. According to Du Toit, it is only when employees act collectively, through trade unions and their representatives, that employees can counteract the bargaining power of the employer. Therefore, the existence of trade unions and their representatives is linked to the realisation of social justice and, it could be argued, the fulfilment of the right to fair labour practices, which is enshrined in section 23(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 ...
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