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No protection, high risk — the harsh realities faced by SA’s e-riders

From high-crime delivery zones to retaliatory account bans, a new study uncovers how digital food delivery platforms trap South African workers in dangerous, low-wage precarity.

  • 98% of surveyed e-riders work full-time, many over two years
  • Platforms force 12-hour daily work, no guaranteed orders
  • Riders face exhaustion, trauma, high accident risks in crime-ridden areas

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