As a Circle alliance partner, Lipaworld leverages this infrastructure to create financial access tools that are simpler, ...

Fintech companies, like Lesaka Technologies, are equipping micro-merchants with affordable, easy-to-use digital tools that ...

It aims to address barriers to entry into the automotive sector by empowering small, medium, and micro enterprises (SMMEs) ...

Chikunga urged that women be repositioned at the center of intra-African trade, noting that the traditional, male-dominated ...

African governments and development agencies have embraced science, technology and innovation as levers for development over ...

Governments should harness the potential of informality as a bridge rather than a barrier to building economic resilience.

Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Minister, Sindisiwe Chikunga, has warned that there can be no resilient economy while wealth and income inequality persist along gender lines.

Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA), in partnership with the City of Ekurhuleni’s Department of Development Planning and Real Estate, hosted a certification and equipment handover ceremony ...

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in Operation Vala ...

Studies show that women who toil in South Africa’s informal economy, working jobs that are neither taxed nor monitored by the government, play a critical role in lifting their country out of poverty.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine, where they have languished for over ...

After a weekend of heavy rains lashed South Africa’s Western Cape, homes in flooded informal settlements with makeshift electric wiring have become the sites of multiple deaths. At least eight ...