Region: South Africa

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.

Sibongile Makhanya: Trading in Traditional Medicines

Before the Warwick Junction Project, which gave street vendors in Durban an infrastructure providing shelter and basic amenities, Sibongile...

DITSELA Online Workers’ Education Institute

The website describes DITSELA as follows: “Ditsela is a joint project of the two largest Labour Federations in South Africa, COSATU...

Johannesburg Street Traders Halt Operation Clean Sweep

In October 2013, law enforcement officers of the City of Johannesburg forcibly evicted over 6,000 street traders from a 24-block area in...

VIDEO: The case of South Africa’s Old Age Pension and Child Support Grant

Francie Lund from WIEGO presented “The Southern African model: The case of South Africa’s Old Age Pension and Child Support Grant”...