Over the past 10 years, community care workers have become an indispensable part of the state’s healthcare provision in South Africa. There are over 70 000 care workers in South Africa, mainly women, who serve the most desperate and poor members of our communities who need added support due to their illness or disability in order to live. Most of them are classified as volunteers instead of employees by their employers, the Departments of Health and Social Development and NGO’s and on average receive a month stipend of less than R2 000. Many of them therefore work under harsh working conditions without any decent protection or access to workers’ rights. STUDIO GUESTS: · Thapelo Moncho; President; NUCWOSA · Samukelisiwe Yende; Deputy National President; NUCWOSA · David Sanders, Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health; University of the Western Cape | 
