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

CAPE TOWN - Residents of several informal settlements in Cape Town are struggling to find alternative accommodation as they rebuild their homes. READ: Cape Town residents left to the street ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 g ...