The City of Cape Town recently gave the green light to a set of new informal trading plans in key areas around the metro.

A large amount of South Africa’s economic activity flows through its informal sector, with over one million street vendors ...

Currently, Cape Town has 278,044 informal structures spread across 849 areas, underscoring the sheer scale of the crisis. And the city is not alone. The Department of Human Settlements data, ...

With the skies clearing, the Cape Town government said Tuesday that it has moved on to “mopping up operations” across the city, specifically in informal settlements. Around 12,000 people have ...

The second most popular type of activity in the informal economy was home repair or improvement, with 33% of rural respondents saying that they participated in home repairs and 25% of metropolitan ...

On Sunday, the City of Cape Town’s Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said that 67 homes at the Intertersite and Sanitizer informal settlements in Langa had been affected, impacting 240 people. In ...

During a high-level summit in Cape Town, officials warn that extortion is not just a crime but a significant barrier to economic growth in the Western Cape, threatening livelihoods and ...

Professor of International Business Strategy & Emerging Markets at the University of Sussex Business School, and the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town In 2003, Thabo Mbeki ...

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