{"id":226805,"date":"2026-03-13T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zctu-to-report-smedco-at-ilo-over-rights-abuses\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:34:09","slug":"zimbabwe-zctu-to-report-smedco-at-ilo-over-rights-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zctu-to-report-smedco-at-ilo-over-rights-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: ZCTU to Report Smedco At ILO Over Rights Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Discover moreOpinion Columnists PlatformTravel insurance ZimbabweShowbiz event ticketsTHE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says it will report the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Cooperative (SMEDCO) to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) over flagrant rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Despite playing a pivotal role towards the empowerment of local entrepreneurs by providing flexible financial assistance, the labour federation says SMEDCO is now stifling staff attempting to stand up for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130317.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover moreOpinion Columnists PlatformTravel insurance ZimbabweShowbiz event ticketsTHE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says it will report the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Cooperative (SMEDCO) to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) over flagrant rights abuses. Despite playing a pivotal role towards the empowerment of local entrepreneurs by providing flexible financial assistance, the labour federation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[8396,258,256,7384,257,5144,5100,53896,254,17581,4686,421],"class_list":["post-226805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-abuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ilo","tag-news","tag-report","tag-rights","tag-smedco","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zctu","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}