Spam call crackdown in South Africa, How the super rich party at the Monaco Grand Prix, Kevin Spacey fights to get his career back, Pick n Pay is making a big change to survive, and Luxury perfumes linked to child labour.
The ‘do as we say, not as we do’ mantra is growing stale, even as lawmakers in the US are pushing for laws that will make child labour even easier.
A ‘Channel 4 Dispatches’ documentary, due to air next week, exposes coffee farms that use child labour, including those that allegedly supply Nespresso.
Foxconn, the largest electronics manufacturer in the world, has admitted that some of its employees may not have met the minimum age of employment in China. Already a subject of huge controversy surrounding its labour conditions, this latest allegation is not helping the manufacturer’s ailing reputation.
Because nothing happens in Merrie England without Banksy offering some sort of comment on it, a new piece has been spotted near Poundland showing a child laborer at work sewing Union Jacks. Apparently this has something to do with Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee. Take a look! It’ll be a postcard soon.
South Africa has a very real child labour problem. Did you know that? And particularly in the North West province, Cosatu said today. This follows a shocking incident in June where an underage boy named Molefe Mogale lost his hand while operating a machine on the farm where he was employed in Rustenburg. He’s14 years old – and now he only has one hand.