Property News · December 7, 2016

Zac Goldsmith – some kind of record breaker | Brief letters


Agency working conditions | South African political parties | Zac Goldsmith’s legacy | Time man of the year | Arts sponsorship | The new Keith FlettThe exploitation of agency workers (Agency workers ‘exploited and forgotten’, 5 December) has even spread to the Ministry of Justice which employs court interpreters through an agency. The MoJ can book me for a full day’s work but should the case be adjourned or cancelled when I show up, I will only be paid little more than an hour’s pay, putting the cost of cancellation or curtailment on me, the interpreter. What hope is there for agency workers’ conditions if even the MoJ colludes in this bad practice?Name and address supplied• Your obituary of the admirable anti-apartheid activist Walter Hain (5 December) is marred by the assertion the Liberal party was the only non-race-based political grouping in South Africa. Our sister party, the South African Communist party, has a powerful claim to be the political party that forged the strongest multi-racial unity.Nick WrightCommunist party media office, London Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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