informal trading

Arts and CultureZaza Hlalethwa | 2018-11-23 00:00:00

Auntie Teresa's Unisex Beauty Salon doubles as a hair salon, internet café and, according to the sign outside, a gold exchange facility.

‘Woza Sisi’ tracks the ways of street hairstylists

Arts and CultureZane Lelo Meslani | 2018-11-23 00:00:00

Representations of black women in South Africa often reflect the relationship a woman has with her hair. Beauty discourse extends beyond the...

Used clothing industry oils the informal economy

NationalPontsho Pilane | 2016-04-15 00:00:00

De Villiers Street in central Johannesburg is, at first glance, pure sartorial chaos.

Home Affairs is on the up

NationalMosibudi Ratlebjane | 2016-03-18 00:00:00

‘I speak everything from Shona to the Bangladeshi language. People are the same all over, we all the same, and here we speak the same language...

Microcredit: A principal cause of poverty in SA

NationalMilford Bateman | 2015-12-29 06:36:00

Post-apartheid South Africa provides ample evidence of the debilitating trajectory of the microcredit movement. The expansion of microcredit and...

Tough times fire up avid US bartering network

NewsGuy Taylor | 2011-03-29 10:27:00

Shellfishermen tending shallow pools of salt water know the seafood delicacy in their nets can fetch top dollar at swanky restaurants a few hundred...

Trading markets for malls

NationalNiren Tolsi | 2009-04-07 08:59:00

Among the shouts and smells of the early morning market in eThekwini's bustling Warwick Triangle are the ghosts of struggles between marginalised...

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