Unemployment rates remain a key indicator of economic activity across Africa. While some countries report low figures, these ...

In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

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

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

In South Africa, more than thirty years after the end of apartheid, the lives of people who are black and poor are not counted as human lives. We are murdered with impunity and left to die with ...

Trading informally is not a choice but a necessity in a country where the unemployment rate is at an alarming level ...

South Africa’s biggest non-bank financial service providers have teamed up to enhance the appeal of digital payments in the ...

The informal economy, often referred to as the shadow economy, encompasses economic activities that are not regulated by the government or covered by formal labor laws. This sector plays a ...

I've also made a film with and about informal miners ... Black workers in South Africa experienced this trend in acute ways. The country's mineral economy was defined by the compound system ...

Moniepoint Inc. ("Moniepoint"), one of Nigeria’s leading business payments and banking services platform, has secured an ...