LETTER: Sylvia Mahlangu must be lauded for what she has done for domestic workers
It is clear that domestic workers are the most downtrodden part of the SA workforce, and they seldom have anyone speaking on their behalf
It is a disgrace that it’s taken 25 years for the democratic government to change a real discriminatory apartheid law and have it abolished from the statute books (“Top court upholds decision on protection for domestic workers (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2020-11-19-top-court-upholds-decision-on-protection-for-domestic-workers/)", November 19).
Six years ago I specifically raised the question in the parliamentary portfolio committee of the department of labour with the previous labour minister, Mildred Oliphant. She stated then that she was going to get her department to push for the law to be expunged, yet despite me nagging for years thereafter nothing was done...
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