South Africa

Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa

 This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

Securing Livelihoods: A Gendered Analysis of Support Interventions available to Street Traders in the Durban Metropolitan Area

Myths of Globalisation: Private Regulation and Farm Worker Livelihoods on Western Cape FarmsTransformation

Nurturing a culture of compliance with domestic workers’ rights in South Africa

Accumulation by dispossession and the informal economy – Struggles over knowledge, being and waste at a Soweto garbage dumpEnvironment and Planning D: Society and Space

Melanie Samson, former coordinator of WIEGO’s work with waste pickers in Africa,  recently published an article entitled “Accumulation...

Resumen de los resultados del estudio sobre las trabajadoras en empleo informal y el cuidado infantil en seis organizaciones con base de miembros de trabajadoras pobres

Esta publicación es un resumen de “Nuestros niños no reciben la atención que merecen”: Una síntesis de los resultados de la investigación...

Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets

Informal Economy Employment Data In South Africa: A Critical Analysis

Addressing inequality and economic marginalisation

Cape Town: Institute for African Alternatives

Extending health and safety protection to informal workers: an analysis of small scale mining in KwaZulu-Natal

School of Development Studies Research Report 76