Haroon Bhorat – The Conversation

Workers in a car factory in South Africa. Photo by JNS/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

May 29, 2024

Power cuts have hit South Africa’s labour market hard: the biggest toll has been on jobs – new research

Haroon Bhorat, University of Cape Town and Timothy Köhler

Power outages in South Africa pose a threat to employment.

Public sector trade unions now dominate union membership in South Africa. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

February 19, 2016

South Africa’s civil servants are the country’s new labour elite

Haroon Bhorat, University of Cape Town; Karmen Naidoo, University of Cape Town, and Kavisha Pillay, University of Cape Town

Rising membership of public sector unions and the growing political influence of these unions have led to government workers earning a premium over their private sector counterparts.

Thomas Piketty argues that education is a big equaliser in a highly unequal society like South Africa. But it must be good quality education. Reuters/Rogan Ward

September 30, 2015

FactCheck: is South Africa the most unequal society in the world?

Haroon Bhorat, University of Cape Town

Twenty years ago, Brazil and South Africa were in a similar position when it comes to inequality. Brazil has made significant progress in addressing this, but South Africa hasn’t.

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