Unemployment

Eastern Cape’s prickly informal economy

Every year cactuses provides a major income boost for unemployed people who forage and sell the fruit

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News | 23 February 2018

Women wait for work on the side of the road

“We cannot give up because we have children that depend on us.”

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News | 19 January 2018

Waiting by the roadside desperate for work

The official unemployment rate in the Eastern Cape has risen to over 32%

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News | 1 December 2017

Swapping “rubbish” for food in Dunoon

Recycle Swop Shop offers unemployed residents an option

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News | 28 August 2017

Rubbish dump is a hazard for some but a lifeline for others

“I know that the discarded food could be dangerous to the health of me and my child, but I don’t have an option.”

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News | 30 May 2017

Eldorado Park explodes over lack of houses and jobs

“There is no future for the youth here”

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Photo Essay | 9 May 2017

Dismissed UWC Securitas staff in mediation talks

Workers are demanding to be reinstated at the University

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News | 6 April 2017

“Insourcing at UWC is unaffordable” says university

But dismissed security guards, “desperate to start working”, won’t give up their protest

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Brief | 31 March 2017

Battle for toilet cleaning jobs in Gugulethu

Residents stop janitors emptying toilets in protest

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News | 29 March 2017

The long wait for “madams or bosses”

“Sitting at home will not put food on our tables,” say the men waiting by the side of the road

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Feature | 29 March 2017

Child grants can help mothers get better jobs

Research shows that grants make it easier for women to look for work

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Opinion | 2 March 2017

“To people dustbins smell bad. To me they smell of money.”

Thembisile Kubheka makes a living by picking through bins

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News | 20 February 2017

Ekapa and zama-zamas fight over mining rights

Will Department of Mineral Resources use the opportunity to regulate small-miners?

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Law | 5 December 2016

Ekapa case shows South Africa’s stark inequalities

Mining companies and government move to end livelihoods of thousands of informal miners

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Opinion | 5 December 2016

Thriving car wash started with one man in a wheelchair

"I have gained my independence, doing things that I didn’t think I would be able to do,” says owner

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News | 17 November 2016

Protesters burn down new hospital wing

They accuse construction company of hiring people from outside the area

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News | 29 September 2016