Unemployment

Their mother died in 2018. Since then this family of five has survived on child support grants

There are over 30,000 child headed households in South Africa

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News | 18 January 2021

Covid-19: Long tightly packed queues outside labour department

People battling with online applications have flocked to local centres, causing overcrowding

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News | 14 January 2021

Kensington housing renovated by “exceptional artisans” from informal settlement

Body corporate hires unemployed local artisans

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News | 17 December 2020

Child drowns in Philippi dam

Community leader says they have been pleading for years for the area to be fenced

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News | 10 December 2020

Tsakane tense after residents close down immigrant-owned shops

At least five new shops have been closed down

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News | 30 November 2020

Horse grooms can claim UIF, rules CCMA

Department of Labour’s system showed that they had absconded from work

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Brief | 30 November 2020

Union slams public works programme

Workers whose contracts ended in March are demanding to be reinstated

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Brief | 26 November 2020

Transport employees face retrenchment three months after court victory

In August, the Constitutional Court ordered that 66 workers be insourced by the Road Traffic Management Corporation

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News | 25 November 2020

Nyanga youths charge R50 to queue for clients

“Many visit these departments the whole week without being helped because of the long queues”

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News | 20 November 2020

Two people arrested during protest for jobs, water and electricity

Effingham shack dwellers feel neglected by the eThekwini Municipality

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News | 10 November 2020

Post offices “overwhelmed” with Covid-19 recipients

Over 1.3 million people have been approved for the special Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant in KwaZulu-Natal

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News | 6 November 2020

Elsies River youth start garden to feed their community

The pair are set to start a larger garden in the area soon

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Brief | 5 November 2020

Municipal workers threaten to intensify protests

Expanded Public Works Programme workers want permanent jobs

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News | 3 November 2020

Hard life for Fairview’s horse grooms

They want the government to provide services to their informal settlement but it’s on private land. Nevertheless there is hope that a pending land transfer will change things

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News | 3 November 2020

“We can’t get any jobs or grants” say former municipality workers

Protesters claim that records still reflect that they work for the municipality despite being unemployed since 2016

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News | 30 October 2020

7,000 jobseeker applications handed to City of Cape Town

SAMWU and Assembly of the Unemployed demand permanent jobs

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News | 28 October 2020