Women fill plastic shopping bags with light polyethelene plastics to make soccer balls from re-used plastics in Cape Town. Women bear the brunt of joblessness in South Africa. EFE-EPA/Nic Bothma September 7, 2021 Young people and women bear the brunt of South Africa’s worrying jobless rate Cecil Mlatsheni, University of Cape Town and Lauren Graham, University of Johannesburg Racial and gender disparities in access to work are entrenched features of the South African labour market.
