Read More6 months ago Care Workers Day 2026 by Zanele Chakela care economy / Care Workers' Day / community health workers / decent work / ECD practitioners / extended public works programme / food handlers / gender equality Challenging a system that depends on care, but refuses to value it.
Read More7 months ago The collective ‘coming out’ of care workers in the Expanded Public Works Programme by Nelly Nyagah care economy / community health workers / decent work / ECD practitioners / expanded public works programme / gender equality / impact / informalisation / public care work programmes / volunteer food handlers Who are we? Are we workers? Do we belong?
Read More7 months ago Absorbed on paper, invisible in practice by Thapelo Moncho care economy / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / gender equality / health sector / recognition of prior learning / workers’ rights A Community Health Worker reflects on the reality of absorption into permanent employment on the ground.
Read More7 months ago The everyday violence against Community Health Workers by Kukhanya Mthimkulu care economy / Care Workers' Day / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / gender equality Community Health Workers demand formal, safe and dignified work.
Read More7 months ago Care without applause by Kukhanya Mthimkulu care economy / Care Workers' Day / community health workers / decent work / ECD practitioners / extended public works programme / food handlers / gender equality What care workers day reveals about whose labour counts.
Read More7 months ago The politics of care by Kukhanya Mthimkulu care work / community health workers / decent work / early childhood development practitioners / extended public works programme / food handlers Why care work is treated as “natural” rather than skilled labour
Read More8 months ago Community Health Workers still outsourced despite court ruling by Nkosemntu Stuurman care work / care workers / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / health sector Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness refuses to employ Community Health Workers on a permanent basis.
Read More8 months ago 7 February is the inaugural Care Workers’ Day by Nina Benjamin care economy / Care Workers' Day / community health workers / decent work / ECD practitioners / extended public works programme / food handlers / gender equality Care workers mobilise around five demands for decent work and gender justice.
Read More11 months ago Let’s organise for decent care work by Thapelo Moncho advocacy stories / care economy / community health workers / decent care work / extended public works programme / health sector / public care work programmes Our communities depend on our care. We must depend on one another to get recognition, respect, and rights.
Read More11 months ago Building a national care workers’ movement to advocate for decent work by Zanele Chakela care work / community health workers / decent work / early childhood development educators / extended public works programme / food handlers / informalisation / public care work programmes ‘We are the legs of one pot. When one breaks, the whole pot falls. The nation cannot stand without us.”