South Africa

Message from President of SAITA on the effects of COVID-19 to the informal business economy

In an open letter, Rosheda Muller, President of South African Informal Traders Alliance (SAITA), has called on governments to support informal...

Gendered inequalities in the South African informal economy

In this article in Agenda, WIEGO’s Michael Rogan and Laura Alfers examine sources of gender inequality within the South African informal...

City-level statistical snapshots for South Africa and Thailand available for the first time

WIEGO’s Statistics Programme is launching a new set of Statistical Briefs that provide key indicators of informal employment and key...

Street Vendors and Legal Advocacy: Reflections from Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa and Thailand

OpEd: South Africa’s Informal Sector Creates Jobs

WIEGO’s Michael Rogan and Caroline Skinner wrote an OpEd in The Conversation shedding light on the realities of South Africa’s...

Interview: How South Africa Could Become a Model for Formalizing the Informal Economy

WIEGO’s Organization & Representation Programme Director, Jane Barrett, talks about the ILO’s Recommendation 204 on formalizing the...

The Exclusion of Street Traders from the Benefits of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa

Durban Street Traders

This report provides a disaggregated analysis of known street vendors in the eThekwini Municipality by type of area, with further disaggregation...

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

School of Development Studies Research Report 76

Have Minimum Wages Benefited South Africa’s Domestic Service Workers?

African Development and Poverty Reduction: The Macro-Micro Linkage. Forum Paper 2004.