The Invisibles

Tshwane's Plastic View 'on the edge of the edge'

With few amenities and even fewer rights, the largely foreign-born community of Plastic View, on the eastern outskirts of Pretoria, have carved out a living with off-the-books construction labour and domestic work. Then the lockdown hit

12 July 2020 - 00:00
By Setumo-Thebe Mohlomi

The lives and livelihoods of many undocumented construction and domestic workers living and working there, however,  remain as precarious as ever —  perhaps now even more so.

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