All resources: South Africa

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.

Building Resilience in SMMEs in South Africa

Programme

Decent work for youth at the centre of rural transformation in SADC countries

Tripartitie wORKSHOP

NEPAD Agency joins ILO’s Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth

Developing skills and youth entrepreneurship for job creation in Africa.

News update

Focused Enhancement and Revitalization for an Effective NLAC - Tripartite Study Tour to South Africa

The ILO Country Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives has organised a tripartite study tour to South Africa from 20th - 25th August, at the request of the tripartite constituents

South Africa’s social economy

building an inclusive society

Meeting of the BRICS Ministers of Labour and Employment

ILO head praises BRICS countries’ commitment to social dialogue

Guy Ryder highlights the major contribution BRICS countries can make to social dialogue, social protection, gender equality and youth employment.

BRICS Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting

Make social dialogue work

ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, praises the commitment to social dialogue and tripartism made by BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - in a speech at the group’s Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting in South Africa.

International labour standards

First fishing vessel detained under ILO Fishing Convention

Convention to improve working conditions for fishers on commercial fishing vessels shows its teeth.

ECLM Project

How Immigrants Contribute to South Africa's Economy

A joint report by the OECD Development Centre and the International Labour Organisation (ILO), How Immigrants contribute to South Africa's economy, demonstrates the economic contribution of these immigrants and makes recommendations regarding the...

Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 Cooperative contributions to SDG 12

This brief is part of the Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 series produced by the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC). Through a series of 17 briefs, one for each Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), COPAC...

Summary report: Cooperatives’ competitiveness potential for trade in SADC countries

The objectives of the research are to determine what opportunities exist for agricultural cooperatives to export, with what products, and to which markets from which SADC countries. The external constraints to increasing cooperative share of export...

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 97

Multi-employer collective bargaining in South Africa

In South Africa, collective bargaining operates at multiple levels. The main distinction to draw is between single-employer bargaining and multi-employer bargaining.

SADC Employment Labour Sector

Namibia set to take over from South Africa as Chair of the SADC Summit and the Employment and Labour Sector

As Namibia prepares to take over the reins of SADC Summit, the Employment and Labour Sector (ELS) is meeting to discuss the regional body’s progress on implementing plans on employment and labour. A capacity building workshop on extending social...

ILO, partners met to boost Green Public Employment Programmes (GPEP)

Green Public Employment Programmes

Partnership for Action on Green Economy

South Africa National Academy on Green Economy

The Partnership for Action on Green Economy, in collaboration with the South African Department of Environmental Affairs, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the ILO Offices in Pretoria and Geneva and the...

SCORE South Africa: A case study from Seagull Lodge

South Africa Factsheet: SCORE Programme

Employment Research Brief

Employment policy implementation mechanisms in South Africa

The ILO and its constituents have made significant progress in developing national employment policies (NEPs). However, unless appropriate institutional arrangements can be put in place to ensure their timely and effective implementation, even sound...

SCORE Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises: PHASE II FINAL REPORT 2017