- Title
- Social equity and job creation - The key to a stable future
- Creator
- South African Labour Movement (SALM)
- Subject
- South African Labour Movement (SALM)
- Date
- Oct 1994
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116819
- Identifier
- vital:34448
- Description
- Two years after the 1994 elections, South Africa remains a society characterised by vast inequalities, in wealth, economic power and incomes. Much progress has been made to build a common nationhood, to normalise political processes and to create a culture of freedom. We now face the challenge of addressing the glaring inequities in our country. In the process, some hard choices need to be made. As the white population had to give up its monopoly of political power in order to usher in the new democracy, so the economic elite should now be challenged to share the wealth and resources of our country to the benefit of all. This critical requirement for the new democracy — the active promotion of social equity — is the key objective organised labour sets for itself during 1996. We do this because too many South Africans are poor, underpaid or unemployed, homeless and with their basic needs and requirements not satisfied by the economy. Social equity in South Africa, and particularly the reduction of the vast inequalities in the society, must entail substantial redistribution of wealth, the eradication of poverty, the promotion of worker rights, increased employment the development of the full human potential of our people, and the provision of basic infrastructure and services to all citizens. The RDP calls for a programme to satisfy the basic needs of all South Africans. It calls for the development of our people. It calls for workers rights, and the building of the economy. These central pillars of reconstruction in the RDP should now be given concrete expression. Labour puts forward this framework as a first contribution to the current debate, and in order to clarify to the society what our analysis of the current situation is, and what our vision for the future entails.
- Format
- 48 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- South African Labour Movement (SALM)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- South African Labour Movement (SALM)
- Rights
- No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher
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