Economy

Eastern Cape’s prickly informal economy

Every year cactuses provides a major income boost for unemployed people who forage and sell the fruit

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News | 23 February 2018

Battle over mining rights in remote Eastern Cape villages

Mgungundlovu residents and government to meet in court in April

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Feature | 19 February 2018

Mealie sellers taste success

Working six days a week, 12 hours a day, women braai and sell corn to put their children through school

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News | 9 February 2018

Popular Khayelitsha coffee shop closed by burglary

Owners of Department of Coffee are hoping to reopen if they can raise the capital to replace stolen coffee machines

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Brief | 21 November 2017

Credit regulator to investigate moneylender

“Conniving loan sharks” must be brought to book, says member of provincial parliament

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News | 25 October 2017

Rent owed to City goes from R3,400 to R260,000 in one month

Mayco Member says “bureaucratic error” was behind massive increase for Grand Parade vendors

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News | 9 October 2017

Reprieve for Port Elizabeth roadside traders

Walmer residents force municipality to backtrack on eviction

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News | 4 October 2017

Single father supports children by waste picking

“If you are a parent you cannot be picky”

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Brief | 24 September 2017

White farmers and Communist Party members join to fight bank evictions

Protesters demand change to legislation

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News | 21 September 2017

R2K demands cheaper airtime and data

Picket outside cellphone companies’ offices

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Brief | 19 September 2017

Chokka fishers struggle to survive in lean times

Separated for long periods from their families, the fishers eke out a meagre living catching squid

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Photo Essay | 19 September 2017

How beer is smuggled across the border and sold in Springs

“This is real Zimbabwe beer, a sweet memory of home”

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News | 15 September 2017

Urban pig co-operative needs land to stay in business

“I started with few pigs and now they are plenty”

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News | 12 September 2017

Gin just the tonic for Khayelitsha business

Local entrepreneur will release two types of gin in November

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News | 9 September 2017

Traders refuse to sign PRASA’s new lease

High crime and poor sanitation have been a problem for years

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Brief | 8 September 2017

National Credit Regulator hits back at Shoprite

Retailer to be told to audit all its loans

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Brief | 7 September 2017