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

Informal traders in Marabastad are preparing to challenge the City of Tshwane's recent market closures, claiming that the ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Benjamin Koops, Matthias Pilz, Skills Development in the Informal Economy, Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 54, No. 4 (April 2019), pp. 580-600 ...

Nigeria has retained its status as the fourth largest economy in Africa despite a rebasing exercise that’s poised to shore up ...

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 ...