Pretoria's modest proposals
South Africa last week announced a set of proposals for improving the rights of at least some of the country's 7.5 million black workers. Among the provisions: permitting most black workers to join officially recognized labor unions; encouraging employers to pay black and white employees the same wages; integrating company cafeterias and washrooms; doing away with the practice of reserving certain categories of jobs for whites only.
The proposals, which must be debated in the all-white South African Parliament but are almost certain to become public policy, are the...
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