The Senate on Wednesday passed for second reading a bill to regulate and formalise employment in the informal sector through private agency involvement. The Bill sponsored by Senator Mohammed Sani ...

How informal businesses are reduced to rubble. {{image}} On the side of a busy street in Khayelitsha, Simon (not his real name) runs an unexpectedly criminal enterprise: a black-market barbershop. He ...

Informal work is absorbing most of East Africa’s young jobseekers as economic growth fails to generate enough formal employment for a fast-expanding labour force. New data underline the scale of the ...