Unemployment
Woman collapses in long queue at Pretoria labour office
Mamelodi residents say the long lines are exacerbated by the six-month closure of their labour office
Brief | 20 January 2025
“Many women are going to starve with their families” says widow as CWP contracts end
Update: COGTA extends Community Works Programme contracts terminated for workers aged 55 and older late on Thursday night
News | 16 January 2025
Here’s how an SRD beneficiary spent their R370 grant
We joined Willem Witbooi from George while shopping on Black Friday
News | 6 December 2024
Life is tough in Tin Town
“When it is raining, we spend our nights standing up”
Brief | 2 December 2024
Diamond mines everywhere but Richtersveld town battles poverty
Sanddrift residents struggle to get medication, ambulances, and jobs
Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 25 November 2024
Workers have slept outside City Hall for a month, hoping to get jobs back
Their contracts were terminated in July and the eThekwini municipality says it is only considering applicants 35 or younger
Brief | 21 November 2024
Government must protect legitimate SRD grant applicants, say activists
Universal Basic Income Coalition say fraudulent applications only represent a “small proportion of applications”
News | 28 October 2024
People wait months to be verified for R370 SRD grant
SASSA blames the Home Affairs online system
News | 22 October 2024
Informal miners burnt to death during police raid: Families demand justice
Several miners died and scores more sustained severe burns during an Operation Vala Umgodi raid in August
News | 21 October 2024