Unemployment
Horse grooms can claim UIF, rules CCMA
Department of Labour’s system showed that they had absconded from work
Brief | 30 November 2020
Union slams public works programme
Workers whose contracts ended in March are demanding to be reinstated
By Zoë Postman
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
By Zoë Postman
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”
News | 20 November 2020
Two people arrested during protest for jobs, water and electricity
Effingham shack dwellers feel neglected by the eThekwini Municipality
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
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
By James Stent
Brief | 5 November 2020
Municipal workers threaten to intensify protests
Expanded Public Works Programme workers want permanent jobs
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
News | 3 November 2020