Terry Bell
Fin24
Cape Town, WC, South Africa
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INSIDE LABOUR | Pertinent facts for a mad world
We truly live in a mad, mad, mad world. Although, unlike the 1963 film of that name, our circumstances are no comedy, says Terry Bell. → Read More
INSIDE LABOUR | When lockdown does more harm than good
Every democratically inclined citizen should be concerned, says Terry Bell. → Read More
Terry Bell | The saddest Workers' Day in history
For the first time in 130 years, there will be no rallies and marches to celebrate what began as a campaign for an eight-hour working day. → Read More
INSIDE LABOUR | Hiding behind a coronavirus scapegoat
Authorities unable or unwilling to face up to a reality that might reveal their own shortcomings and ineptitude, usually resort to pinpointing a scapegoat. This year, Covid-19 fits that bill, says Terry Bell. → Read More
Terry Bell | Tax, war and a post-coronavirus future
We are at war. So say governments around the world. → Read More
INSIDE LABOUR | A terrible choice
It is better to run even a 20% or 30% risk of being infected by the coronavirus than face the 100% chance of staying locked away, slowly starving, perhaps to death, says Terry Bell. → Read More
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The responses and reactions to this latest contagion has also begun to tear away a veil of hypocrisy, says Terry Bell. → Read More
INSIDE LABOUR: What the coronavirus can teach us about basic healthcare
Every year, TB alone kills more than 20 000, mainly poor, South Africans, despite being treatable and curable, says Terry Bell. → Read More
INSIDE LABOUR: The 'pie in the sky' Budget
More than a century ago, the great labour movement balladeer, Joe Hill, wrote and sang about politicians promising "pie in the sky, by and by". And he also sang that street corner preachers promised that the pie would would also arrive, but only "when you die", says Terry Bell. → Read More
INSIDE LABOUR: The green irony at Davos
The irony of climate change featuring so prominently at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, last week, seems to have been lost, says Terry Bell. → Read More
INSIDE LABOUR: The year 2020
Welcome to 2020, the start not just of a new year, but of a new decade — and one that promises to be more turbulent than anything in recent memory, writes Terry Bell. → Read More
Terry Bell: Exploitation is a case of money, not melanin
Capital doesn’t give a fig about skin colour; the only colour of real interest is the colour of money, writes Terry Bell. → Read More
INSIDE LABOUR: Rainbows, dreams and ethical journalism
South Africa seems to be obsessed with rainbow images, says Terry Bell. → Read More
INSIDE LABOUR: Thuma Mina (send me)
Please explain an all-expenses-paid jolly in Geneva for the centennial celebrations of the International Labour Organisation, says Terry Bell. → Read More
Fedusa's Dennis George will soon know his fate
The future of Dennis George, the suspended general secretary of the Federation of Unions of SA will be decided on May 16, following a two-day disciplinary hearing at the union federation’s Roodepoort headquarters that concluded on Friday. → Read More
Fedusa's Dennis George will soon know his fate
The future of Dennis George, the suspended general secretary of the Federation of Unions of SA will be decided on May 16, following a two-day disciplinary hearing at the union federation’s Roodepoort headquarters that concluded on Friday. → Read More
Terry Bell: How will workers vote in 2019?
A great deal has changed among unions over the last 25 years, says Terry Bell. → Read More
INSIDE LABOUR: Words as weapons and flawed democracy
Words have the power to create illusions of reality and can trigger emotional responses rather than encourage critical thought,. They should be used wisely, says Terry Bell. → Read More
INSIDE LABOUR: On chicken, dumping, and union power
The cut-price Dutch are back again, but there's been little protest that local poultry producers are among the most efficient anywhere, says Terry Bell. → Read More
INSIDE LABOUR: Back to basics ahead of elections 2019
A majority, when absent voters are taken into account, means something very different in real terms, says Terry Bell. → Read More