Economy
Don’t take us away from our customers, traders ask Mayor Athol Trollip
Informal vendors in Port Elizabeth relocated to site without customers, water, electricity or toilets
News | 15 March 2018
Grand Parade Traders squeezed by City
Barricades in preparation for cycle tour are ruining business while vendors still have to pay rent
Brief | 6 March 2018
Want to curb abalone poaching? Treat the cause
Drone video that showed poachers being caught misses the point
Opinion | 28 February 2018
Ramaphosa’s “most important people”
GroundUp spoke to some of the people who sleep on the benches outside Parliament
News | 27 February 2018
Eastern Cape’s prickly informal economy
Every year cactuses provides a major income boost for unemployed people who forage and sell the fruit
News | 23 February 2018
Battle over mining rights in remote Eastern Cape villages
Mgungundlovu residents and government to meet in court in April
Feature | 19 February 2018
Mealie sellers taste success
Working six days a week, 12 hours a day, women braai and sell corn to put their children through school
News | 9 February 2018
Popular Khayelitsha coffee shop closed by burglary
Owners of Department of Coffee are hoping to reopen if they can raise the capital to replace stolen coffee machines
Brief | 21 November 2017
Credit regulator to investigate moneylender
“Conniving loan sharks” must be brought to book, says member of provincial parliament
News | 25 October 2017