A DAY IN THE LIFE...

GETTING RADY TO PICK UP and RIDE...

TAKING A BREAK AFTER A LONG RIDE.

  

PULLING IT SWIFTLY AT CROSS-ROADS.

SORTING PLASTICS FROM BOTTLES...

QUEUING TO GET PAYED...

KNOCKING OFF AFTER A LONG DAY...

GOING HOME, VEY TIRED...

I found this angle to be intriguing because every so often when I pass-by the streets this is what I see. Its reality, this is how they are living it out on their daily basis. Each and every ealry hours of a day- about 4am, these ordinery people of Johannesburg work-about the streets picking different kinds of plastics and bottles.

I found it to more interesting because its part of recycling.

This is where Ilive...

Top things you didn't know about student spending

A recent report by Student Village reveals shocking things about SA university student spending.

The report reveals things you didn't know about students:

1) Money does not define them

2) Students are spending  MORE than the usual South African (an average South African spends R35900 per year)

3) Average student spending is R3510 per month which equals to R42,120 per annum. With 938,000 students in South Africa, they together are potentially spending R39,5billion per year.

5) 78% of student income come from their parents. 24% get their money from part-time work and 18% from a bursary or sponsor

6) 70% of students save up to R250 for emergencies

7)  Girls spend more than boys (okay, that we already knew)

8) Students from different ethnic backgrounds spend differently i.e

·         White students: Food & groceries, holiday travel, entertainment and alcohol,

·         Colored: Smoking, bling, magazine, clothing and footwear

·         Black: toiletries, cosmetics, take-aways, gadgets, extra-tuition and music

9) Highest value of student purchases are:

·         Cellphones (potential sales of 337 680 per annum)

·         Premium Clothing

·         Laptops and CDs

10) 20% of students have credit cards.

11) 24% of students have retail accounts.

12) 70% of students are confident that they will settle their debt. More than half of these are comfortable to settle their own debt, and the other 45% are reliant on family and friends to do this for them

13) Non traditional advertising is one of the biggest influencers when making purchases.

14) More students will shop online if they had the resources

15) Students like simple, transparent, trustworthy banks

The top priorities of students are:

         • Rent

         • Food & groceries

         • Clothing & footware

         • Petrol

         • Extra tuition

         • Computer equipment & other gadgets

         • Entertainment

         • Alcohol beverages

         • Motor vehicle repayment and public transport costs.

         • Toiletries and cosmetics

         • Hairdressers and Beauticians

         • Motor insurance

         • Software and Computer games

         • Music

         • Bling

         • Cigarettes

         • Airtime

·         • Laundry

• contraception

The research was conducted in May 2013, targeting males and females aged between 18-24 from all South African tertiary institutions. The results are based on  681 respondents.

Following the Master...

Photographer:  Helen Levitt

Type: street photographer

This is one of Helen`s most inspiring pictures as it reflects her subjects – men, women and children living out on the streets among the tenements of New York . This picture reflects a helpless man standing on the side of the street, hoping for the better. On the far right, there are ordinary people going about their lives. On the left hand side, a woman makes it happen with less, she is selling food and drinks. Helen’s photographs have consistently reflected her poetic vision, humor, and inventiveness. "And I decided I should take pictures of working class people and contribute to the movements, whatever movements there were- Socialism, Communism, whatever was happening " she said.

                                                                                                                         

Photographer: Mduduzi Mtakati

Type: street photographer

The above pictures reflect a social life of destitute people in the streets of Doornfontien, Johannesburg. Cooking, washing and eating out on the streets is their daily way of life. Both pictures reflect a fire which they use to cook. Even worse, their place to sleep is just under the bridge, depicted on the far right in the first picture. The second picture depicts a young man washing his clothes; the wishing-line is on the far left built with short wooden-line. This is how these people are living it out on the streets.