Zimbabwe’s economic crisis continues to worsen, and Finance and Investment Promotion Minister Mthuli Ncube’s recent remarks about the role of the informal sector offer little hope for resolution.

In Zimbabwe it was believed that if a woman went underground the gold seam would vanish, but above ground women held ...

South Africa's poor showing in the Congo crisis has gone down badly at home. Photos that surfaced showing the heads of South Africa's army and air force playing golf during the crisis this week ...

South Africa’s booming Global Business Services (GBS) sector continues to expand, creating more than 14 000 new job opportunities between January and September 2024, with over 12 500 of those ...

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According to a recent Juniper Research study, over two-thirds of the global population – 5.4 billion people – will own a ...

THE informal sector in Tanzania is the lifeblood of the nation’s economy, providing livelihoods for mil lions and serving as a critical safety net for those excluded from formal employment. Defined as ...

The National Accounts Division of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) organized a half-day consultation on ‘Estimation of Informal Sector in Gross Domestic Product (GDP)’ ...

The major holders of South African bonds, and therefore, the owners of South Africa’s national debt, are shown in the table below. Each sector’s share of the total stock of benchmark bonds and ...

GOVERNMENT will soon announce a raft of measures to support the survival of the formal sector and ensure the informal sector complies with legal requirements such as tax compliance, Finance, Economic ...

HARARE, Jan 31 (NewsDay Live) - Government has introduced stringent measures to protect the formal sector from unfair competition posed by the informal sector. In a statement released Friday ...

However, the agricultural sector remains fraught with challenges, from protectionist trade policies and climate-related impacts to inadequate financing for smallholder farmers. For South Africa ...