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Unemployed benefit from the ongoing petrol strike

The Cape Times reports that a petrol station in the Stand, in Cape Town, has temporarily employed some of the homeless and unemployed to fill the shoes of striking petrol attendants.

The filling station on the busy thoroughfare has given women from the Case Caravan Park and a man living in a Somerset West night shelter an opportunity to earn nearly R20 per hour by working as temporary petrol attendants.

The service station’s manager, Liesl van Rensburg, said: “Our business needs to continue. When the petrol jockeys had a strike three years ago, we used the same people from the Case Caravan Park.

“Now we also have someone from the night shelter. It really feels good to be providing the less fortunate a job they are really enjoying.”