Economy
Claiming the wasted opportunities in recycling
Pilot project in Brixton and Auckland Park brings informal waste pickers and residents together to benefit both
By Zoë Postman
News | 16 October 2019
Peter Chihoro cycles up to 80km a day fetching wood to make brooms
Zimbabwean has been making brooms for ten years
News | 15 October 2019
Generations of Cape Town flower traders cut it in the city market
“Everybody in the family is here, cousins, aunties and great aunties”
Text by Tariro Washinyira. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Photo Essay | 28 August 2019
Small business owners shut down civil engineering project in Uitenhage
The group is demanding 30% of the value of an erosion control contract
Brief | 23 August 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
After 25 years of waiting for government, Ncwadi erupts in protests
“Now that we are doing what other communities are doing, police shoot at us. Protesting is the last option but we had no choice.”
News | 30 July 2019
Man set alight in scuffle over municipal tender
Small business owner Vuyani Zinto says a ward committee member poured petrol over him when he tried to stop a fencing and flooring project
Brief | 26 July 2019
How the Barn is helping Khayelitsha’s entrepreneurs
Non-profit technology hub offers office space for people to run their businesses
News | 26 July 2019