Unemployment

Covid grant should be increased to at least R413, say civil society groups

A new means test and bank verification process has resulted in far fewer people getting the grant

Khayelitsha youths protest over lack of jobs and development

Informal traders inside Cape Town mall told to vacate by next Sunday

For many traders in Belhar Mall, this is their only income to support their families

Cape Town is removing homeless people from the street. This is what the City is offering instead

Mayor promises R230-million over the next three years to help homeless residents. But will there be enough space?

“R350 is an insult. It is even less than the lunch of a minister’s son a day”

Activist groups demand Basic Income Grant of R1,500 at Kariega protest

People queue from 4am to sort out their UIF

Cape Town labour centre serves 600 people a day. Many of them keep having to return

Protesters block major roads in Cape Town in cleaning contract dispute

Five arrested but not charged

Hundreds march to demand Ramaphosa address Basic Income Grant at SONA

Civil society organisations want R350 SRD grant increased to R1,447

Cape Town suburbs where homeless people count

Through the Streetscapes project, homeless people are running surveys, earning an income, and changing lives

Eco-friendly fast food deliveries create jobs for young people

Green Riders employs young people in Dunoon on e-bikes

Cape Town mother has to beg for money to buy nappies for her disabled son

15-year-old Donnel, who has hydrocephalus, wants to go to school

“We begged them not to take our belongings”

Homeless community removed from Gqeberha’s Grahamstown Bridge

Xhora Mouth in the Eastern Cape is starting to thrive

The making of a vibrant village

Dismissed guards ask UCT to insource them

“Unfair discrimination” say 31 dismissed security guards, conned by student activist, as they approach UCT’s COO to be insourced

Homeless: Hundreds volunteer to count people living on the streets of Tshwane

This will help give more accurate data and steps needed to assist homeless people in the metro

Call for Treasury to tax the rich to pay for a Basic Income Grant

“Government has ignored poor and marginalised people for too long”