28 August 2025
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Discover the Best of Newzroom Afrika Interview: Informal workers are not eligible for maternity and paternal benefits - DGMT

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Following on from our op-ed in Daily Maverick highlighting the exclusion of informal workers from maternity protections, Julie Mentor, project lead for Embrace: Movement for Mothers, spoke on Newzroom Afrika. She underscored how millions of independent contractors and informal workers remain ineligible for maternity and parental benefits under South Africa’s labour laws. For women running
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