Unemployment
Covid-19: Zimbabwean nationals ask to be repatriated
Consul General says the embassy is compiling a list of people willing to return to Zimbabwe
News | 22 April 2020
Covid-19: SASSA runs out of food parcels in Uitenhage
Councillors deny allegations that they distribute parcels unfairly
News | 22 April 2020
Waiting for a job on the roadside during lockdown
“Whenever cars stop they tell us to go home and stay safe from corona,” says Lucky Shabalala
Brief | 20 April 2020
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