Theme: Legal Empowerment

Informal business and poverty in South Africa: Rethinking the paradigmLaw, Democracy and Development

Analysing policy discourse concerning the informal economy in South Africa, the article explicates in detail the paucity of (even ostensibly...

Informal Employment, Labour Law and the Challenge of Enforcement

In order to regulate, improve and standarDize informal labor, there is a need for a strategic vision of labor regulation supported by theories,...

A Report on Kayayei in Ghana

Localizing Global Rules: Public Participation in Lawmaking in Vietnam

As the pace of legal harmonization in developing East Asian states increases to comply with international trading treaties, a disjunction...

Mediating from the margins: The role of intermediaries in facilitating participation in markets by poor producersSouth African Journal of Labour Relations

Abstract: This article argues that the preponderance of market intermediaries is driven by two imprimaturs. The first relates to the global...

Domestic workers and Informality: Compliance with Decent Work for Domestic Workers as a Transgression to the Asymmetrical Law of the Home Workplace*

The situation of informality addressed through invisibility and the consequent need to overcome the asymmetrical law of home-based work. ...

City of uMhlathuze: Allocation of Market Stalls Policy Document, 2008

“The policy document outlines the procedures for the allocation of Market Stalls in Umhlathuze, and aims to provide both business and...

Kwa Zulu Natal Green Paper Policy for Informal Economy, 2006.

This document contains the green paper for informal economy in KZN, which was drafted to give an idea of the general ideas that would inform...

South African Informal Traders Forum and Others Versus City of Johannesburg.

This document outlines the court case between Informal Traders in the inner city of Johannesburg who in October 2013, officers of the City’s...

City of Bend Street Vendors Policy, 2003

To provide consistent guidelines for vendors operating on public right of way in the City of Bend.