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

South Africa’s informal sector, often overlooked and undervalued, provides livelihoods to millions and contributes significantly to the GDP. It accounted for 6% of GDP in 2017, while 18.3% of ...

Visakhapatnam: Working in line with the target set by the Ministry of Labour and Employment to facilitate social security to workers in the informal sector, district officials focus on enrolling ...

Proprietary units headed by women ... sector being led by female proprietors during the survey period. However, overall employment generation in the unincorporated manufacturing sector remained below ...

While artisanal miners are common across Africa, South Africa’s case is unique in that they work illegally in ... the key reasons the perilous informal mining sector survives is the connivance ...

“Specifically, the number of informal sector workers with funded RSAs was 12,241. From 2020 to Q3 2024, the number of funded RSA registrations increased by 5,971, and the total amount saved in ...

In an aggressive attempt to reshape Zimbabwe’s economic framework, the government has imposed new measures aimed at integrating the informal sector into the formal economy. While the move ...

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.

Yet women remain a lively, if sidelined, community in the country's growing mining sector ... workers in South Africa and Botswana returned to Mazowe and invested in gold pits. They sub-contracted ...

The Zimbabwean government has once again embarked on a futile mission to regulate the informal sector, a behemoth that has long outgrown the state’s capacity to control it.

MANILA, Philippines — Plagued with discarded face masks, plastic bottles, and other trash during the COVID-19 pandemic, a small riverside community in Manila created its waste management service ...