Unemployment
Covid-19: Leather business in Oudtshoorn takes strain as tourism plummets
Cheslyn Wagenaar makes belts and sandals at his RDP home with offcuts of crocodile and ostrich skins
By Mpumi Kiva
Brief | 18 April 2020
Covid-19: No food, no money, no job – how can we stay indoors? ask Brakpan residents
“An anxious man can do nothing else but stand on the streets and make a plan for his family to eat”
News | 17 April 2020
Covid-19: A blind couple’s battle to find food in Louis Trichardt
The couple from Zimbabwe say they relied on money from begging outside stores to buy food and pay rent
Brief | 16 April 2020
Covid-19: Residents lend a helping hand to waste picker in Benoni
“If many people offer help to waste pickers during this difficult time of the coronavirus, South Africa will be a better place,” says waste picker
Brief | 9 April 2020
Covid-19: Homeless, unemployed and stuck in South Africa
Limpopo moves people living on the streets into shelters
Brief | 8 April 2020
Covid-19: Hairdresser’s battle to survive
“I have never been scared like this before”
Brief | 7 April 2020
Covid-19: George residents thankful for its many soup kitchens
About 80 feeding schemes are operating during the lockdown, many from people’s backyards
By Mpumi Kiva
Brief | 7 April 2020
“Our entire livelihoods are coming to a standstill” says waste picker
Informal sector workers’ plea to be included in UIF provisions during the lockdown
By Zoë Postman
News | 27 March 2020
Covid-19: New UIF provisions may help workers
But labour lawyer has his doubts and the Fund is “inundated with enquiries from businesses”
News | 23 March 2020