Land reform leads to eviction after 80 years’ labour
An 88-year-old woman has been threatened with the culturally taboo removal of her family’s ancestral graves after being evicted from the farm she worked on for decades.
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Government and labour clash over economic policy
Labour federations and the state have different ideas on how to recover the country’s economy, which was already taking a beating when the Covid-19 pandemic hit.
Recycling myths debunked
By using a baffling methodology, lobby group Plastics SA claims an almost 50% recycling rate. A chemical engineering professor has taken them to task, saying the true rate is about 17%.
SA companies cash in on Covid-19
In this fifth instalment in a series on the coronavirus and capitalism, New Frame traces how businesses hiked the prices of food and essential goods during the lockdown.
Covid-19 Roundup | Level two
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s downgrading of Covid-19 restrictions comes as predictions indicate South Africa is moving past the peak of the pandemic. But job losses and state corruption continue.
Series | Coronavirus and capitalism
While the Covid-19 lockdown has led to mass retrenchments across sectors, others have profited from the crisis. New Frame looks at the devastation among South African workers.
Worker fired over sick leave for Covid-19 anxiety
In this fourth instalment in a series on the coronavirus and capitalism, New Frame reveals how a worker’s anxiety over positive cases in his workplace led to his dismissal.
Dubious Nairobi shack study sparks controversy
Economists and Nairobi water company cut off impoverished people’s water supply in the Kenyan capital in an effort to establish if landlords will pay their outstanding bills.
Luxury game reserves leave workers in the lurch
In this third instalment in a series on the coronavirus and capitalism, New Frame looks at the effects of retrenchments on workers in a high-end tourist region of the Eastern Cape.
Richards Bay: The boom town busted by coronavirus
In this second instalment in a series on the coronavirus and capitalism, New Frame looks at how the once flourishing industrial town has been devastated by the pandemic.
‘Reckless’ Lovedale college lets students down
Students at the Eastern Cape TVET college say their return to campus after its Covid-19 closure has been blighted by health risks, late NSFAS payments and an unresponsive management.
Barloworld retrenchments are short-term thinking
In this first instalment of a series on the coronavirus and capitalism, New Frame looks at how a firm that has made R90 billion in three years is using Covid-19 to get rid of 4 500 workers.
Pregnancy and labour during Covid-19
New Frame traces the coronavirus through the cycle of life in a series of intimate portraits from Gauteng. This is what new mothers are experiencing in the time of Covid-19.
A nurse’s experience of Covid-19 as cases peak
Healthcare workers are at the forefront of the fight against the virus and have seen the worst of it. They too have tested positive, with some succumbing. How have their private lives fared?
The agony and anguish of Covid-19 burials
Gauteng is in the eye of the coronavirus storm with almost 200 000 cases and 3 000 lives lost. New Frame traces the virus in a series of intimate portraits from the province.
South Asia neighbours are older but no wiser
Pakistan and India celebrate their independence days on 14 and 15 August, respectively. But neither country has ever been free from the toxicity of regional and religious conflict.
Series | Everyday Covid-19 portraits from Gauteng
New Frame traces the coronavirus in a series of intimate portraits from Gauteng.
Destitute Karoo residents barely survive Covid-19
Living lives of desperation in rural areas where food is almost as scarce as work, the Eastern Cape Karoo’s impoverished are struggling to make it through the pandemic.
A year of turmoil and traumatic loss in Kashmir
Twelve months after India moved to annex the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region, battered Kashmiris are living their worst fears of losing their land, rights and freedom.
EmaSwati workers and traders want to return to SA
When South Africa sealed its borders because of the lockdown, the 11 entry points it shares with eSwatini were closed too. But those who make their living in SA are eager to return.
Covid-19 Roundup | Investigations and dismissals
As the health department looks into the Covid-19 deaths of a doctor who lacked PPE and a hypoxic man in a hospital parking lot, protesting workers are suspended or dismissed.