Unemployment
How employment has changed in 10 years
Manufacturing — a vital industrial sector — has shed 300,000 jobs
News | 13 February 2019
After years of fruitless job searching, Ayanda Kunene decided to create his own work
“There are so many people in our community who are unemployed yet we still see rubbish lying around”
By Zoë Postman
News | 13 February 2019
Unemployment rate keeps climbing
Quarterly survey says 27.1% of the labour force is out of work. A year ago it was 26.7%
By Aidan Jones
Brief | 12 February 2019
Unemployment: our biggest problem
We are taking an in-depth look at the issue South Africans are most concerned about
By Aidan Jones
Feature | 12 February 2019
Mushroomville waste pickers avoid eviction, for now
“It’s not an easy life but I have to do it to support my family back home”
By Zoë Postman
Feature | 4 February 2019
Gloria Matsala walks 10km every day to wait for work on the side of the road. This month, she’s earned R100
Jobseekers hope for domestic work
Feature | 30 January 2019
Unemployed, poor and desperate: the perfect prey for con-artists
“I was lucky to get work after paying before, but this time my money is gone for mahala”
News | 17 January 2019
69-year-old woman scrap collector sleeps by the roadside
Eastern Cape women spend weeks on the road collecting ferrous metals
Brief | 10 December 2018
Nepotism in Eastern Cape municipality to be probed
Investigation follows weeks of protests in Stutterheim
News | 22 November 2018