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Daughter of drowned domestic worker takes fight to ConCourt

07 November 2019 - 09:00 By BELINDA PHETO
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The Constitutional Court must now confirm the unconstitutionality of the exclusion of domestic workers from the act.
The Constitutional Court must now confirm the unconstitutionality of the exclusion of domestic workers from the act.
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The daughter of a domestic worker who drowned after falling into a swimming pool at her workplace has gone all the way to the Constitutional Court to change the law.

The act kept compensation out of the struggling family’s reach, but now the wheels of change have been set in motion.

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