Economy

Township residents want pigs out

A piggery run from a private house in Imbali, Pietermaritzburg, has neighbours up in arms

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Brief | 4 April 2018

School children recycle waste for food

“This is helping my family very much because my parents do not work,” says seventh-grader

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News | 3 April 2018

Waste picker killed by trash compactor

Nswaki Mahlakwane’s body remained uncollected for more than 12 hours

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Brief | 22 March 2018

Traders vs Transnet: court case has consequences for informal businesses

Mogwase’s informal traders argue that closing their businesses will make them dependent on the state

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Law | 19 March 2018

Don’t take us away from our customers, traders ask Mayor Athol Trollip

Informal vendors in Port Elizabeth relocated to site without customers, water, electricity or toilets

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News | 15 March 2018

Grand Parade Traders squeezed by City

Barricades in preparation for cycle tour are ruining business while vendors still have to pay rent

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Brief | 6 March 2018

Want to curb abalone poaching? Treat the cause

Drone video that showed poachers being caught misses the point

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Opinion | 28 February 2018

Ramaphosa’s “most important people”

GroundUp spoke to some of the people who sleep on the benches outside Parliament

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News | 27 February 2018

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