How much does it cost your domestic worker to get to work?



Is this cost one way or for a roundtrip?



one way round trip

Travel costs are known to be high for domestic workers. We assume a need of R14 one way to get to work, based on an informal survey of domestic workers in Cape Town.

We assume the cost of getting from Khayelitsha to a Cape Town suburb through a very short informal survey as the base. It is true it can take up to two minibus taxi trips to leave home and arrive at work. These trips combined cost between R14-15. Daily this can then be R28-30.

Transportation is not cheap in Cape Town (public or private) and this is likely true through South Africa. Of course if the tariff or the number of trips from poorer areas to urban employer centres were lower then the cost would be lower. But it can also be higher depending on the distance.