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    COVID-19 Crisis Study February 23, 2021

    Coping in Crisis: South African Workers’ Lives in COVID-19

    This joint WIEGO and UN Women advocacy initiative gives an in-depth account of the experiences of women informal workers in South Africa...

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  • Warwick Junction, Durban, South Africa. Photo: Jane Barrett Project

    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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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. Worker Story

    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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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. Worker Story

    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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  • Ernestine Mohloboli_Johannesburg reclaimer Worker Story

    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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  • Worker Story

    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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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. Worker Story

    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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  • Worker Story

    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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  • Guillermo Pérez Herrera Page

    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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    Profiles/Workers’ Stories August 24, 2020

    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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