Unemployment

SASSA recovers R150-million in ineligible grants payments

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

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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

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Brief | 26 September 2024

UIF online services frozen in court battle

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

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News | 5 September 2024

Cape Town’s hidden informal settlement

Flamingo Heights is home to 400 people

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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

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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

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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

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News | 26 July 2024

“Each time we try to get comfortable, the police come to demolish our home”

Families living in Lindokuhle Mnguni informal settlement in Johannesburg say they’re being harassed by police and AmaPanyaza

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News | 11 June 2024

Radiation therapy graduates unplaced for six months by health department

Graduates are required by law to complete the Internship and Community Service Programme in order to practise

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News | 10 June 2024

Get us jobs, contract workers tell Gauteng Premier

The contracted workers were awarded compensation of up to R24,000 by the Labour Court. They refused to accept this and instead are demanding jobs.

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News | 27 May 2024

Mineworkers disrupt COSATU May Day rally in Soweto

“What are we celebrating, when we are losing our jobs?”

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News | 2 May 2024

Agricultural hubs create work and hope for hundreds

But Industrial Development Corporation funding for the project in KwaZulu-Natal is coming to an end

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News | 24 April 2024

The Big Issue is secure again

After months of uncertainty the magazine has survived a R600,000 cyber theft

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Brief | 18 April 2024

City of Cape Town won’t bend jobs policy, councillor tells Imizamo Yethu protesters

Development Forum says cleaning jobs are not going to young people from the area

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News | 14 March 2024

Waste pickers create their own recycling centre

Talks to integrate informal waste reclaimers with the City of Johannesburg’s waste management have gone nowhere for three years

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News | 12 March 2024

Unemployed doctors march to Union Buildings

They are calling for the president to intervene and make sure medical professionals are employed

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Brief | 26 February 2024