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Local initiatives give people the experience of reparative justice

When Zimbabwean mother-of-four Eunice Sinoya enrolled in a first aid course near the capital Harare, she was lured by the college's promise of a job in Britain's care sector.

The need for support is clear in a country where violence against women is profound and widespread, and impunity for perpetrators is common, women's rights experts say.

Wary residents and a lack of support from local authorities make it difficult to map the needs of informal settlement residents and deliver public services.

After six years of working in a vineyard just outside Cape Town, farmworker Diana Ndleleni collapsed between the grapevines grown to make wines renowned throughout the world.

Cleaners, couriers and taxi drivers around the world are creating new apps to better balance their gig work with the chores of motherhood and marriage, skirting sexist algorithms that penalise women who put home before work.

Wary residents and a lack of support from local authorities make it difficult to map the needs of informal settlement residents and deliver public services.

Cape Town has one of world's highest murder rates, prompting the city to invest in surveillance tech, from cameras to drones. Locals say jobs and investment are also needed to tackle crime.

As if life was not hard enough for refugees trying to forge a new life in South Africa, the online system set up to help them has thrown a big, new barrier their way.

In a fertile stretch of fields and farms dubbed New Harare, Zimbabwe is building a hi-tech “cyber city” a world away from the traffic-clogged streets and overcrowded slums of the country's nearby capital.