South Africa has a dozen official public holidays each year, honouring different events or traditions. One of them is the Workers' Day, also known as May Day across the globe. So, why do we ...

Workers’ Day is celebrated each year on 1 May ... it’s hard to find much to celebrate. Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) indicates that nearly one in three South Africans is unemployed.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Eastern Cape will be among the nine provinces of COSATU that will be holding events to celebrate the International Workers' Day ...

The future of work and ... us May Day as a celebration of courage and fortitude. And like the "Durban Moment" strikes of February and March 1973, which gave rise to the modern South African ...

Thursday, 1 May, is Workers' Day in South Africa. The public holiday has been observed since 1994 and 'serves both as a celebration of workers’ rights and as a reminder of the critical role that ...

May Day in apartheid South Africa was banned. Yet workers still marched, risking beatings, job losses and jail. In 1986, Cosatu called a two-day general strike. More than 1.5 million workers ...