The South African informal economy accounts for 17% of employment. Street trading is the largest. Street traders are scattered around the many corners of the country’s towns and cities. They sell a vast range …
The South African informal economy accounts for 17% of employment. Street trading is the largest. Street traders are scattered around the many corners of the country’s towns and cities. They sell a vast range …
Uber has asked the High Court to refer to arbitration a dispute in which some Kenyan drivers have sued the ride-hailing platform over the reduction of fares by nearly half. …
A Chinese national has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for torturing local mineworkers in Rwanda after a video showing him whipping a man tied to a post went …
US ride-hailing giant Uber has suspended its services in Tanzania, saying government legislation that raises fares and cuts its commission made it difficult for it to operate. Uber said it …
The absence of policies and systems that cater specifically for the needs of female workers is responsible for the prevalence of Gender Based Violence and Harassment in the local mining …
The Liberian legislature has passed a bill making it mandatory for mothers to breastfeed their children until the age of six months. Our Legislative correspondent in Monrovia quotes the House …
High levels of lead were found in the blood of thousands of children living around the Kabwe mine in Zambia, according to evidence submitted by human rights lawyers in the …
As of Friday, South African employers are required to protect their staff against a wide range of bullying behaviour, from gestures that threaten violence right through to certain types of …
REPRESENTATIVES of hundreds of Kenyan plantation workers have won a bid to take a multi-million-pound negligence action against a Scottish tea firm. Aberdeen-based tea company James Finlay (Kenya) Ltd, which …
Waste pickers play an important environmental and economic role, but the law lets them down
“There is growing recognition of the need to integrate waste pickers into the ‘mainstream economy’. Yet, the fragmented contemporary regulatory framework is not fit for purpose and needs reform. In …