Unemployment insurance fund benefits affecting domestic workers should be extended, Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant said in Cape Town on Saturday.

"We need systems that will ensure that workers in this sector are no longer abused," she said in a speech prepared for delivery.

Oliphant was speaking to domestic workers attending a public participation programme at a stadium in Khayelitsha.

She said various proposals...read more here: Extend benefits to domestic workers: minister