Efforts Meant to Help Workers Batter South Africa’s Poor

Even though the practice of promoting clothing manufacturers who pay employees less than minimum wage is considered unethical in most developed countries of the world, many of those employees cannot afford to have their plants shut down as a result. Since the Apartheid, South Africa has sought to emulate the United States and other western nations in its efforts to establish substantive economic policy. Unfortunately, they, like the rest of the global community, have also fallen upon hard times and a fiscal crisis. With recent unemployment rates at record highs, clothing manufacturing plants that pay meager wages to its workers are starting to seem like necessary evils. The South African government has this policy issue at the top of its national agenda.