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'Cheap labour serves the interests of employers'

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May 02, 2025

While thousands of workers yesterday marked May Day, Sandi Mninawa and Fikile Ndima had no reason to celebrate.

- Brian Sokutu

For five years, Mninawa and Ndima worked at a Johannesburg restaurant until they were retrenched during the Covid lockdown in 2020.

When business slowly resumed after the global pandemic, Mninawa and Ndima said they were replaced by "foreign nationals" in their jobs.

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