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Informal economy workers

Informal traders decry lockdown, looting and lack of support from the City of Joburg

27th Jul 2021 Chris Gilili 0

Workers in the Informal economy of Johannesburg say that the City has made things hard for them during lockdown.

Surviving lockdown as migrants living in SA

25th May 2021 Joseph Chirume 0

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.

Xenophobic attacks on informal traders in Durban not an isolated incident

10th Mar 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

Xenophobia continues to rear its ugly head without check from the authorities.

Slow recovery of the informal economy still costing many livelihoods

16th Oct 2020 Lilita Gcwabe 0

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.

Zimbabwe informal workers cry foul over new lockdown restrictions

23rd Jul 2020 Christopher Mahove 0

Informal economy workers in Zimbabwe say the government imposed the lockdown without making sure they would have means to survive.

In Tunisia, Black Africans face “the harshest exploitation”

4th May 2020 Equal Times 0

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 […]

How waste pickers in the global South are being sidelined by new policies

3rd Mar 2020 Federico Demaria Marcos Todt 0

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 […]

South Africa’s spaza shops: how regulatory avoidance harms informal workers

25th Feb 2020 Andries du Toit 0

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 […]

Station vendors suffering due to railway suspension

24th Jan 2020 Mzi Velapi Tandeka Bafo 0

Vendors that trade at central line stations say that the suspension of the railway service has negatively affected them.

South Africa’s clandestine miners defend their work (and want it to be legal)

25th Jan 2019 Equal Times 0

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 […]

Informal economies are diverse: South African policies need to recognise this

15th Oct 2018 Mike Rogan 0

South Africa is currently mulling over ideas and agreements that recently came out of a two-day jobs summit. The country is losing the battle against […]

Lifting the lid on the black box of informal trade in Africa

2nd Oct 2018 Joachim Jarreau Cristina Mitaritonna Sami Benssasi 0

The share of internal trade in Africa remains low, as reflected by official statistics. This is despite numerous regional trade agreements that have led to […]

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