Op-ed: You can’t plant hope without nurturing its roots
In rural South Africa, youth unemployment is a crisis. Thousands of young people are locked out of opportunities across provinces such as the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and Limpopo, with limited income and pathways to social mobility. In response, agriculture is often promoted as a solution — a means to generate livelihoods, address household food insecurity […]
Newzroom Afrika Interview: Informal workers are not eligible for maternity and paternal benefits
Following on from our op-ed in Daily Maverick highlighting the exclusion of informal workers from maternity protections, Julie Mentor, project lead for Embrace: Movement for Mothers, spoke on Newzroom Afrika. She underscored how millions of independent contractors and informal workers remain ineligible for maternity and parental benefits under South Africa’s labour laws. For women running […]