Coping in Crisis: South African Workers’ Lives in COVID-19
Background There is widespread recognition, both internationally and in South Africa, that the measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 have...
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Hopes Go Up in Smoke: A Migrant Street Trader in Durban, South Africa
For immigrant street traders in Durban, life was hard and lean before COVID-19. When South Africa imposed a strict lockdown in response to...
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Hungry: A Migrant Domestic Worker in Cape Town, South Africa
Hunger during South Africa’s early COVID-19 lockdown was widespread among domestic workers. A domestic worker from Zimbabwe, who lives in...
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The Art of Recovery: A Johannesburg Reclaimer’s Story
Ernestine Mohloboli, a former artist who now makes a living collecting waste in Johannesburg, has long been a proponent of organizing reclaimers....
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Sewing the Seams: Cape Town Homeworkers Pull Together as COVID-19 Halts Earnings
Homeworkers in the garment industry are the most vulnerable and exploited link in the supply chain and Cape Town homeworker Chevonne Jacobs...
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Undeterred in the Face of a Crisis: Profile of a Market Trader in Durban, South Africa
A determined advocate in the struggle for traders’ rights, Romilla Chetty was desperate to get her trading stalls at Durban’s Warwick Junction...
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View from the Mountain: A South African Waste Picker’s Uphill Battle during COVID-19
When COVID-19 hit, it was South African waste picker Justina Kgoele’s resourcefulness that got her through the worst of the crisis....
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WIEGO lamenta la pérdida de Guillermo Pérez
La comunidad que anida para el trabajo de WIEGO en Perú – que incluye miembros del equipo de WIEGO, socios, dirigentes y miembros de...
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WIEGO Mourns the Loss of Guillermo Pérez
The community in which WIEGO’s work in Peru is rooted, which includes WIEGO team members, partners, leaders and members of workers’...
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Martha Chen interview with alma mater Connecticut College
Connecticut College interviews two alumnae: Marty Chen, International Coordinator of WIEGO, and her mother, Barbara “Barry” Beach...
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