Unemployment

A lifetime without an ID document

Thoko Nzimande is 63 and she has never had an identity document

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Brief | 16 August 2019

I queue for a living

Limpopo man employs five people and charges R50 per queue

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Brief | 15 August 2019

People flock to live at Pietermaritzburg dump site

“This has become a home for many of us”

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News | 25 July 2019

Zwelihle Renewal demands lists of names of immigrants employed in Hermanus

“Gangster type approach” says human rights activist

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News | 18 July 2019

PE residents stop street works to demand jobs

Municipality condemns disruption of service

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Brief | 12 July 2019

No shelters for Johannesburg’s homeless

City says 10,000 people are living on its streets, but it only funds one shelter

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News | 8 July 2019

Women and unemployed young men dodge trains to scavenge for coal

People hunt for coal that has fallen off trains along the Brakpan–Springs line

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News | 3 July 2019

Immigrant food couriers risk death on South African roads

“When it rains, it’s trouble. Guys are falling all the time.”

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Feature | 2 July 2019

The people of Plastic City cannot even afford zinc shacks

People live in homes built of discarded board and plastic next to a Brakpan dump site

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Photo Essay | 27 June 2019

Crime prevention volunteers in KZN vow to fight termination of contracts

MEC’s private sector plan criticised

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News | 14 June 2019

City of Cape Town demolishes “illegal” roadside stalls

Councillor says stall users intended to occupy land

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Brief | 10 June 2019

Herding cattle in Gauteng to send every cent possible to Lesotho

Kopano Lekau works seven days a week as a herdsman to earn R2,000 a month

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News | 7 June 2019

Community clean up turns waste into arts and crafts

Clean My Space initiative in Khayelitsha has ballooned to 180 members

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Photo Essay | 7 June 2019

Community safety volunteers demand jobs in KZN

Department of Community Safety and Liaison has R33 million budget for volunteers

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News | 6 June 2019