Phansi, Down with Labour Brokers (2018) Online

Phansi, Down with Labour Brokers (2018) Online

More than twenty years since the end of apartheid disparate groups of workers for whom very little has changed - failed by the state, betrayed by a corrupt and outdated traded union movement and subjugated by modern labour broking practices - find solidarity through the work of an advice office. The documentary Simunye, follows the forms that this solidarity takes by tracing the worker and advice office interactions through the eyes of a young worker-turned film-maker. Ultimately Simunye explores the question of what a future worker movement might look like - a question faced by precarious workers globally. The film, shot over four years, has transformation as a central theme. - Over the past 20 years capitalism has transformed so that bosses are selling labour to other bosses but worker protections in the form of industrial unions has not transformed in accordance. - In South Africa the lack of transformation among the working classes is captured through the eyes of Jacob, whose life...