Yeoville Market traders still picking up the pieces three months after fire
“Things will never be the same ever again,” said one trader who lost everything in the June fire.
“Things will never be the same ever again,” said one trader who lost everything in the June fire.
The informal traders in the city centre of Johannesburg lament bad treatment by the City of Johannesburg.
Workers in the Informal economy of Johannesburg say that the City has made things hard for them during lockdown.
On Africa Day, migrants from the other parts of the continent based in South Africa talk about the hardships they continue to endure under Covid-19 and the lockdown.
Xenophobia continues to rear its ugly head without check from the authorities.
The informal economy workers are one of the group of workers who are bearing the brunt of the pandemic as some have lost their livelihoods.
Informal economy workers in Zimbabwe say the government imposed the lockdown without making sure they would have means to survive.
Jérémie*, an Ivorian in his early thirties who arrived in Tunisia in early 2016, is reluctant to speak out. He says he suffered reprisals after […]
The world is producing more and more waste, with serious health and environmental consequences. In urban areas, domestic waste is accumulating fast and landfills fill […]
Small informal retailers are a ubiquitous feature of any developing country’s urban landscape. Known as spaza shops in South Africa, they are an important, even […]
Vendors that trade at central line stations say that the suspension of the railway service has negatively affected them.
Protected from the rain and the sun by plastic sheets tied to sticks, dozens of muscle-bound youngsters apply their strength to making heavy metal cylinders […]