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
The desire for cashless transactions - driven by the ongoing fear of Covid-19 infection - is as prevalent in the informal sector as anywhere else. What is needed is a way to make these a reality...
Craig Duggan 19 Jun 2020
Are the health and safety standards at stores in lower-income areas as high as they are in affluent areas? In brief, no...
Richard Wells 17 Jun 2020
Report finds 70% of households in poor neighbourhoods source food from informal sector...
Zoë Postman 10 Jun 2020
East African startup Sokowatch has launched an e-voucher scheme to help ensure that essential food and goods are available, free of charge, to vulnerable families...
5 Jun 2020
Standard Bank has partnered with the Small Enterprise Finance Agency to help spaza shops purchase stock through government funding...
4 Jun 2020
