The South African domestic worker uniform is basic, yet it stands out to anyone who grew up within our borders. It is not just to protect the workers clothing against dirt and staining. It is a symbol ...

Over a hundred domestic workers dressed in bright uniforms and carrying irons and mops marched through the streets of Pretoria on Thursday to mark International Domestic Workers Day. The marches ...

KENILWORTH, South Africa — For the past eight years, home for Hester Stephens has been a 10-by-9-foot room at the back of her white employer’s carport in this leafy suburb of Cape Town.… ...

So powerful is the image of the domestic worker in South Africa that legislators from the Left-leaning party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, wear their uniform - knee-length dresses with aprons ...

In South Africa, where the phrase is often used by white people in reference to the black women who cared for them as children, it can take on a grasping, almost desperately sentimental quality.

South Africa: Ex-Deputy Minister to Lay an Extortion Complaint Against Domestic Worker News24Wire, 8 May 2018. Gauteng police on Tuesday said they didn't know if former higher education and ...

Growing up, we always had a domestic worker. Many of my friends had live-in domestic workers, who cooked and cleaned and were at the beck and call of their employers. They raised the children to an ...