All news: South Africa
Expanding a beauty salon in Johannesburg through business management skills
Annah Mazibuko, DIJ Beauty Studio – South Africa
One cycle at a time – Building Perfect Wash Laundry Services in South Africa
Thandeka Likhuleni, Perfect Wash Laundry Services –South Africa
Inside Pretoria’s construction sector: expanding Rudzani’s business management skills
Rudzani Madzibandila, Inversco Trading Enterprises – South Africa
COVID-19: Protect children from child labour, now more than ever!
Most ILO programmes implemented in African countries, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, are now taking accelerated action on protecting the health, jobs and incomes of workers. These interventions include a focus on more comprehensive social...
MOU signing ceremony between ILO and Productivity SA
New partnership
Promoting a just transition to low-carbon and climate-resilient economies in Southern Africa
Course
« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | SOUTH AFRICA - “This was one of the best events of its kind on job creation and the future of work”
The ILO in South Africa successfully developed a series of innovative knowledge-sharing and capacity development events for SMEs.
« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | SOUTH AFRICA - “The Domestic Workers Convention can become a powerful tool for justice”
A union leader from South Africa explains how the ILO Domestic Workers Convention made a difference in the struggle to improve working conditions for this particularly vulnerable group.
« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | SOUTH AFRICA - “The ILO prize was key for me to develop an effective business model”
How a young South African entrepreneur boosted his business by taking part in an ILO competition.
Training of Trainers Workshop ILO core International Labour Standards
COSATU Youth Leadership
COOP Champions
Kerryn Krige, ILO DWT/CO-Pretoria
COOP Champions features ILO colleagues from around the world working on cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises. It highlights their contributions, and shares highlights of their experiences, current work, and future...
A quantum leap for Gender Equality, for a better Future of Work for all
South Africa on the road to ratification of Convention 190
« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | SOUTH AFRICA - “I can get a salary every month instead of depending on the social grant”
The Expanded Public Works programme supported by the ILO provided job opportunities to many people from the province of Northern Cape who had been unemployed for months.
PAGE South Africa validates selected indicators to track it's progress towards a Greener Economy
Green Economy
Five insights to developing a Social Economy Policy in South Africa
Social Economy
Future of work
Address uncertainty and fear of the future of work
Speaking at the launch in South Africa of the Global Commission report on the Future of Work, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder set the stage for the next steps in its implementation.
A key step taken towards developing a social economy policy in South Africa
A draft Green Paper on a social economy policy in South Africa presented at a national consultation conference in Sandton. In a speech to the conference, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder reflected on the relevance of social and solidarity economy...
Social and solidarity economy
Social enterprises play a key role in a decent future of work
Innovative solutions are needed to combat the challenges facing the future of work said ILO Director-General Guy Ryder at the Social Economy National Consultation Conference in Durban, South Africa.
ILO’s participation in the WIEGO General Assembly
ILO COOP participated in the seventh General Assembly of Women in Informal Economy: Globalizing Organizing (WIEGO) that took place in Johannesburg, South Africa from 12-14 November 2018.
New strategic partnership to promote jobs and education for refugees and host communities
The Netherlands has joined an innovative partnership with the ILO to support refugees and their host communities.
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