Unemployment
The dangerous trade of the coal hunter
Stealing coal from goods trains to make a living
News | 23 September 2019
A lifetime without an ID document
Thoko Nzimande is 63 and she has never had an identity document
Brief | 16 August 2019
I queue for a living
Limpopo man employs five people and charges R50 per queue
Brief | 15 August 2019
People flock to live at Pietermaritzburg dump site
“This has become a home for many of us”
News | 25 July 2019
Zwelihle Renewal demands lists of names of immigrants employed in Hermanus
“Gangster type approach” says human rights activist
News | 18 July 2019
PE residents stop street works to demand jobs
Municipality condemns disruption of service
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
By Chris Gilili
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
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.”
Text by Kimon de Greef. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Feature | 2 July 2019