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

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

READ: Cape Town residents left to the street following wildfire Several fires at informal settlements in the metro have left many people homeless. Emergency teams have responded to over six fires ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAPE TOWN, Sept 10 (Reuters) - South African police on Monday fired rubber bullets at demonstrators burning tires and stoning cars on a highway into Cape Town in protest against government ...

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 ...