Economy
“We are not doing any business” says street vendor
Report finds 70% of households in poor neighbourhoods source food from informal sector
By Zoë Postman
News | 9 June 2020
Shack dwellers’ vegetable co-operative funds new toilets, masks and sanitisers
Vegetable gardens have changed life in Durban informal settlement
News | 4 June 2020
18,000 jobs lost in wine industry – Vinpro
Union says its inundated as “unscrupulous farmers” terminate workers’ contracts.
By Sadé Allcock
News | 29 May 2020
Alcohol ban creates flourishing black market for Ghanaian whisky
“Selling whisky sachets and cigarettes is the only option l have at the moment”
News | 29 May 2020
“My business will never be the same again” says Duduza spaza shop owner
Ward councillor urges all business owners in need of help to apply for assistance
News | 27 May 2020
Covid-19: Informal traders quietly defy ban on door-to-door selling
“I can’t sit at home while my family is starving”
News | 27 May 2020
Homemade alcoholic brew finds a market as prices soar
“People are bored of sitting at home doing nothing”
By Mpumi Kiva
Brief | 19 May 2020
Planting veggies for the hard times ahead
Candy Mayfair of Oudtshoorn has started growing vegetables for the first time in her life
By Mpumi Kiva
Brief | 15 May 2020
R140 for a packet of cigarettes in Soweto
Spaza shop owner says ban on alcohol and tobacco has cost him R25,000
By Mosa Damane
News | 15 May 2020