Unemployment
Hair and beauty technicians petition to start working
Employer’s organisation has collected nearly 70,000 signatures
Brief | 6 May 2020
“Thanks to the generous donors my kitchen is full of food” says Tsakane resident
Couple urges community to make donations for families in need
Brief | 4 May 2020
“Coronavirus is the last thing to worry about while looking for gold deep inside a mine”
Informal miners say they are continuing operations amid lockdown
News | 30 April 2020
Covid-19: Increase in social grants not good enough, say critics
Activists and academics say government’s grant increases are a “way of appearing generous while actually reducing the disaster relief budget”
News | 29 April 2020
Covid-19: Zimbabwean nationals ask to be repatriated
Consul General says the embassy is compiling a list of people willing to return to Zimbabwe
News | 22 April 2020
Covid-19: SASSA runs out of food parcels in Uitenhage
Councillors deny allegations that they distribute parcels unfairly
News | 22 April 2020
Waiting for a job on the roadside during lockdown
“Whenever cars stop they tell us to go home and stay safe from corona,” says Lucky Shabalala
Brief | 20 April 2020
Covid-19: Leather business in Oudtshoorn takes strain as tourism plummets
Cheslyn Wagenaar makes belts and sandals at his RDP home with offcuts of crocodile and ostrich skins
By Mpumi Kiva
Brief | 18 April 2020
Covid-19: No food, no money, no job – how can we stay indoors? ask Brakpan residents
“An anxious man can do nothing else but stand on the streets and make a plan for his family to eat”
News | 17 April 2020