digiToken is a new and convenient platform that enables consumers to buy airtime, electricity and water online - all from the comfort of your home by practising safe social distancing...
Evan-Lee Courie 18 Sep 2020
Dianna Games, chief executive of Africa @ Work shares some important things to consider when looking to do business in the African market...
Jessica Tennant 16 Sep 2020
Covid-19 has prompted widespread discussion of the resilience of food systems and how efficiency and competitiveness have been previously understood...
Andrew Bowman and Reena das Nair 1 Sep 2020
Globally, the fast-moving consumer goods market had to quickly adjust to the challenges that came with conducting a business in a world of social distancing, hand sanitiser and masks...
Andrew Dawson 28 Aug 2020
The pandemic has put in stark relief the country's poorly understood food system, in which powerful firms operate with little oversight while vulnerable actors in the informal food sector face over-regulation...
Ihsaan Bassier, Refiloe Joala and Thando Vilakazi 14 Aug 2020
Industry bodies representing South Africa's alcohol and restaurant industries have requested for the sale of liquor to resume based on a set of conditions to be agreed by both parties...
22 Jul 2020
Recent research has shown that the average price of cigarettes has increased by nearly 250% compared to pre-lockdown levels...
22 Jul 2020
Under the theme 'Trading and living amid Covid-19', the City of Cape Town's Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Management, Alderman Grant Twigg, met with the leadership of informal traders associations...
10 Jul 2020
The sale of used clothing is a billion-dollar global industry. According to some estimates, almost 70% of garments that are donated globally end up on the African continent...
Dan Banik 10 Jul 2020
The City of Cape Town will be issuing 10,000 CPT+U Covid-19 Informal Traders' Toolkits to qualifying informal traders...
7 Jul 2020
E-commerce is providing a ray of hope for the local economy with transactions hitting a record high in May and June...
30 Jun 2020
Business for South Africa (B4SA), working with partners, is providing business in the informal sector with a set of easy to use Return to Work resources to help guide them...
24 Jun 2020
Small Business Development Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says her department has formalised over 2,000 spaza shops during the Covid-19 pandemic...
24 Jun 2020
The government has gazetted regulations for the operation of personal care services, including hairdressing, beauty services and tattoo parlours...
22 Jun 2020
