MALAIKA MAHLATSI | Unite against collapse or perish together

“Lesego, all the food in the house has gone off. The meat in the freezer, eggs, butter, bread, dough – everything. It’s all rotten now…"

On Sunday morning, I woke up to this message from my sister who is house-sitting for me in Johannesburg while I’m in Europe. She was frantic and embarrassed. Frantic because there was nothing left to eat in the house and embarrassed because being part of the statistic of unemployed youth, she did not have the means to do anything about the situation...