Region: Africa

Trade Act, 2008

An Act to simplify trade licensing procedures; to empower a licensing committee in a council to issue trade licences within the council area;...

COMESA Simplified Trade Regime

The Simplified Trade Agreement (STR) is aimed at simplifying the trade process of clearing goods by informal-cross-border traders. The STR...

Saving the “Mother Market”: Mobilizing Street Vendors in Durban

When a historic market in Durban, South Africa was threatened by commercial development, market workers and street vendors, with the support...

Asiye Etafuleni

Asiye eTafuleni is a Non-Profit Organisation which champions Inclusive Urban Planning & Design. This involves empowering the working...

Muitos comerciantes, uma só voz: Reflexões de líderes da MATO, África do Sul

Basic Conditions of Employment Act, Sectoral Determination 7: Domestic Worker Sector

This sectoral determination makes special provision for basic conditions of employment for domestic workers, over and above the general provisions...

Draft Proposals for an Informal Trading Policy for the City of East London, 1995

This policy paper serves as a proposal for an informal trading policy for the City of East London which ahs received considerable attention...

Maluti-A-Phofung Municipality Street Trading Removal and Impoundment Policy

This policy serves to enforce a by-law relating to the supervision and control of the carrying on of the business of street vendors, peddlers...

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...

Unemployment Insurance Amendment Act, No 32 of 2003

This Act amends the Unemployment Insurance Act of 2001.