Maverick News Ramaphosa orders immediate closure of all spaza shops linked to child deaths as food poisoning cases grow 4 min 12 By Lerato Mutsila
Maverick News Gauteng’s new spaza shop by-laws: a necessary move amid rising food safety concerns 6 min 13 By Lerato Mutsila and Bheki Simelane
Maverick News Informal sector entrepreneurship is the silver bullet to address poverty and unemployment 5 min 4 By Tracey Chambers
South Africa First, do no harm: Promote formal economy for small business, but not at expense of informality (Part Two) 5 min 1 By Ann Bernstein and Stefan Schirmer
South Africa The rise and rise of South Africa’s ‘informalist’ economy poses a high risk of entrenched lawlessness 6 min 4 By Leif Petersen
Maverick Citizen Lost generation: Zimbabwe’s ghetto youth and the scourge of the Covid-19 economy 4 min 0 By Anotida Chikumbu
Maverick Citizen Reports from the coalface: Informal traders share their lockdown stories of survival and making do 11 min 0 By Lelona Mxesibe
COVID-19 Redefining work: Informal workers need government to enforce tighter regulations to protect them 5 min 0 By Shani Reddy
Sci-Tech Getting high goes digital as the Amazon of drug sites deals door-to-door 4 min 0 By Richard Poplak