Unemployment

Here’s how an SRD beneficiary spent their R370 grant

We joined Willem Witbooi from George while shopping on Black Friday

By

News | 6 December 2024

Life is tough in Tin Town

“When it is raining, we spend our nights standing up”

By

Brief | 2 December 2024

Diamond mines everywhere but Richtersveld town battles poverty

Sanddrift residents struggle to get medication, ambulances, and jobs

Text by . Photos by .

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

By

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”

By

News | 28 October 2024

People wait months to be verified for R370 SRD grant

SASSA blames the Home Affairs online system

By

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

By

News | 21 October 2024

Wupperthal: the town where you can sleep outside on your stoep

But jobs are scarce in this small Cederberg mission town

Text by . Photos by .

Photo Essay | 18 October 2024

Public Works workers picket through the night in Durban

They want jobs after their contracts were terminated in July

By

Brief | 17 October 2024

SASSA recovers R150-million in ineligible grants payments

But the agency is bleeding funds due to fraudulent payments still being made

By

News | 11 October 2024

Graduates march to demand police work

They say they have the qualifications and there are staff shortages in the police department but they remain unemployed

By

Brief | 26 September 2024

UIF online services frozen in court battle

Interim interdict stopped the UIF’s new service provider from rendering IT services

By

News | 5 September 2024

Cape Town’s hidden informal settlement

Flamingo Heights is home to 400 people

By

News | 28 August 2024

My three-month battle with the Unemployment Insurance Fund

Appeal to the new Minister of Labour to fix the problems with the fund

By

Opinion | 15 August 2024

Hundreds of waste pickers march in Joburg demanding compensation

They also oppose the City’s plans to burn waste in incinerators, saying it threatens the livelihoods of thousands of waste collectors

By

Brief | 7 August 2024

Churches join call for basic income grant

Providing a guaranteed minimum level of income frees people from vicious cycle of poverty, says Archbishop Thabo Makgoba

By

News | 26 July 2024