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We
believe in the right to work - the right to employment by agreement
- and we believe that all laws and regulations that prevent us
from working should be removed
Mission
- To mobilise the unemployed in rural and urban areas throughout
South Africa
- To organise skills training for the unemployed that will
make them employable
- To find jobs for the unemployed
- To encourage those who cannot find jobs to start their own
businesses
- To fight for the exemption of SMMEs from labour laws that
prevent them from employing the unemployed.
Brief
History
Malamulela Social Movement for the Unemployed is a national organisation
for the unemployed and the first NGO of its kind to register with
the Directorate of Fund Raising. The organisation is led by well-educated
unemployed individuals who understand both the problems facing
the unemployed and macro/micro-economic issues. Since 1996, Malamulela
has been central in championing for changes in legislation that
creates barriers to entry for SMMEs and results in fewer job opportunities.
We
believe:
- That all people have the right to accept employment from employers
of their choice
- That no one has the right to force an employer to employ
someone who they would not hire of their own free will
- That no one has the right to intervene in voluntary agreements
between employers and employees
- That no one has the right to impose conditions on existing
and prospective employees and employers that make employment
uneconomic
- That the dissatisfied employee’s primary remedy is to terminate
the contract of employment
- That the objective of the firm is to supply goods and services
to consumers on a basis beneficial to both parties and that
employees and employers are co-operatively involved in this
endeavour in competition with al other suppliers
- That it is the duty of government to create conditions in
which the demand for labour will increase and not decrease.
Forums
The organisation has been successful in mobilising marginalised
unemployed people to participate in forums that previously excluded
them. Malamulela is acknowledged by government, business and organised
labour to be an important stakeholder. Malamulela participated
in the Presidential Job Summit (1998), Rolling Back Xenophobia
(1998), Jubilee 2000 (1998), Igoli 2002 Summit (1999), various
Sector Education and Training authority (SETA) chambers, and the
Poverty Summit (1998).
Workshops
Malamulela has also participated in numerous workshops such as:
Premier’s Conference on Small Business (Mar 1999, Johannesburg)
Institute for Multi-Party Democracy Focus Group on evaluation
of the job summit (Nov 1998, Johannesburg) Safety and Security
Strategic meeting (Apr 1999, Germiston) Rethinking Welfare in
SA (Feb 1999, Cosatu House, Johannesburg) South African Institute
of Race Relations briefing (Nov 1998, Johannesburg) Public Hearing
on Welfare Bills (Oct 1998, Gauteng) SA Human Rights Commission
workshops on discrimination (Sep 1998) Xenophobia Consultative
Conference (Oct 1998).
Memberships
Malamulela is currently an organisational member of the FMF, SANGOCO
and the SAIRR.
Consultative Meetings
Malamulela has held a number of consultative meetings with:
- Members of Parliament
- Government Departments
- South African Agriculture Union
- South African Chamber of Business
- National Industrial Chamber
- Afrikaansehandelsinstituut
- South African Foundation Business
- South Africa Helen Suzman Foundation
- Free Market Foundation
- South African Institute of Race Relations
- South African NGO Coalition
- Congress of South Africa
- Trade Unions
- South African Communist Party.
Malamulela gathered over 3000 signatures to a petition to the
State President early in 2000 that contained requests from the
unemployed
Click here to read our
petition to the State President
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