{"id":1220,"date":"2020-11-09T19:35:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T19:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rfa.co.za\/SA\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2021-08-27T19:35:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T19:35:53","slug":"rfa-labour-indaba-tackles-industry-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rfa.co.za\/SA\/rfa-labour-indaba-tackles-industry-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"RFA Labour Indaba Tackles Industry Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After its highly successful d\u00e9but on the Road Freight Association events calendar last year, the RFA Labour Indaba is back \u2013 and even better! The Programme for this year\u2019s Indaba covers a number of labour-related challenges that truckers are facing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This one-day event takes place on Wednesday 25 November at the aha Kopanong Hotel &amp; Conference Centre in Benoni, East Rand. Delegates who cannot make it to Kopanong can register for the RFA Virtual Indaba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Post-Covid Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Renowned political commentator, newspaper columnist and television personality Justice Malala is a special guest at the one-day event. Malala will talk about <strong>\u2018<\/strong><em>Decision Time: <\/em><em>Thriving Through SA\u2019s Post-Covid Politics: 2020-2024\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs 2020 draws to a close, South Africa finds itself at yet another fork in the road,\u201d he says. \u201cThe Covid-19 pandemic has revealed deep fault-lines in South African society. Major stresses \u2013 unemployment, poverty, inequality and others \u2013 have been exacerbated by the global pandemic. The governing African National Congress (ANC) has come under unprecedented pressure to implement major policy changes aimed at alleviating these problems. Power dynamics within the party indicate a greater enthusiasm for policy change across various sectors of the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his presentation Malala will unpack President Ramaphosa\u2019s political and economic reform agenda, national health insurance, income grants, land reform and restitution, solidarity and wealth taxes, prescribed assets, a state bank, sovereign wealth fund, independence of the Reserve Bank and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On the Day\u2019s Agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exciting programme line-up also includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Sexual harassment in a digital environment<\/li><li>Legislative gaps: employment of foreigners<\/li><li>Road Freight Case Law update<\/li><li>Workplace bullying \u2026 it\u2019s real!<\/li><li>Networking cocktail function<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>RFA members will enjoy a discounted rate to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After its highly successful d\u00e9but on the Road Freight Association events calendar last year, the RFA Labour Indaba is back \u2013 and even better! The Programme for this year\u2019s Indaba covers a number of labour-related challenges that truckers are facing. This one-day event takes place on Wednesday 25 November at the aha Kopanong Hotel &amp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rfa.co.za\/SA\/rfa-labour-indaba-tackles-industry-challenges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RFA Labour Indaba Tackles Industry Challenges&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"business_type":[],"business_location":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rfa.co.za\/SA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rfa.co.za\/SA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rfa.co.za\/SA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rfa.co.za\/SA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rfa.co.za\/SA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rfa.co.za\/SA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rfa.co.za\/SA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rfa.co.za\/SA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rfa.co.za\/SA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"business_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rfa.co.za\/SA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/business_type?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"business_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rfa.co.za\/SA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/business_location?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}