Unemployment
R6,000 compensation not enough says Ekurhuleni worker
Former participants in municipal job creation programme want permanent jobs
By Zoë Postman
News | 13 July 2018
Department of Labour to use billion-rand surplus to extend UIF benefits
Unemployed workers will be paid out for up to a full year
News | 11 June 2018
Workers battle to get UIF paid out
Two junior riggers at Tentickle Hiring Services (PTY) Ltd have tried since October to get their unemployment benefit
News | 21 May 2018
Reservists say defence force has deserted them
“We are suffering and struggling to support our families”
By Zoë Postman
News | 10 April 2018
School children recycle waste for food
“This is helping my family very much because my parents do not work,” says seventh-grader
News | 3 April 2018
Waste pickers snubbed by City and Province
“Absence of land is blocking our dream”
News | 2 March 2018
Eastern Cape’s prickly informal economy
Every year cactuses provides a major income boost for unemployed people who forage and sell the fruit
News | 23 February 2018
Women wait for work on the side of the road
“We cannot give up because we have children that depend on us.”
News | 19 January 2018
Waiting by the roadside desperate for work
The official unemployment rate in the Eastern Cape has risen to over 32%
News | 1 December 2017