
SASSA beneficiaries defy curfew to get in front of the queue
Long snaking queues are still the order of the day at the social security agency, Sassa, after 302 days of lockdown in South Africa.
Long snaking queues are still the order of the day at the social security agency, Sassa, after 302 days of lockdown in South Africa.
To round off the year, here are just a few snippets of stories Elitsha overed this year.
Covid-19 and the lockdown has exacerbated poverty and inequalities in the rural areas of South Africa.
Suspended Truda Foods workers say they have been asking for a meeting with the company CEO as the local managers do not listen to their grievances.
Children’s homes and youth centres worried about not having the access to food during the pandemic.
The union representing the Go-Bet workers says it wants the workers to be preferred creditors as the company still owes them their Covid relief money.
As the outcry by thousands of care workers whose bodies continue to be on the frontline against covid-19 gets louder around the country, their conditions of work remain unchanged.
The workers claim that the CCMA commissioner refused to accept their evidence.
The illusion of South Africa’s rainbow nation has become even more unreal at many ex-model C schools.
The school principal abandoned his post after he was accused by parents and community members of misusing school funds.
The memorial service for Wongeka Vimbayo was held in Khayelitsha on Tuesday.
The union called in thugs to assault members who had come to its offices to terminate their membership.