'Sometimes I work 5 days in a month': The artisans hunting for work on the streets

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Maseko learnt construction in 2008 and specialises in building, plastering, paving, tiling and putting in ceilings.Originally from KaNyamazane, a township 30km from Mbombela in Mpumalanga, Maseko left his wife and two children, aged 13 and nine, to find work.“I used to earn R3,000 per fortnight ... We stopped working ... because the owners of the mine would hire a person and then fire that person without giving any solid reason.

Sometimes South Africa looks like a good place, especially when you have money, but when you don’t, it is hardI ask Maseko if he can show me any structures he has built. He smiles and says, “I have so much confidence in my work.” The time is 10.35am. Since Maseko has not had anything to eat, why not dine in the restaurant he built?

Robert Salos, 27, is from Blantyre in the Shire Highlands of southern Malawi. He came to SA to find work. Salos left behind his wife and seven-year-old daughter. “I don’t like hard jobs, but because it is difficult to get a job, we accept anything,” he says.The longest period he has been employed is two months when he worked for a guest house in the middle of last year. They paid him R150 a day. “Now I work and stop,” he says.

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If only all those guys can cooperate unite and start a construction company 🤭

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