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

Photo: Sandiso Phaliso.- Hair salons, vegetable stalls and other informal businesses in Cape Town’s townships are being forced to shut down because they cannot afford protection fees.

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

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

Almost 4 000 people have been left homeless after heavy flooding in Cape Town, with informal settlements among the hardest hit. Torrential rain battered large parts of the city, damaging homes, ...

Historically, economic theorists asserted that, as economic systems develop, the formal economy sees a corresponding growth, and reliance on the informal economy declines, according to Slack. But a ...