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Self-employment in South Africa’s informal sector: Prevalence, prospects and policy
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This text describes research undertaken to investigate small-scale self-employment at the
margins of the South African economy. Despite high levels of poverty and unemployment
South Africa’s informal sector is, by ...
Money and sociality in South Africa's informal economy
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)
This article examines the interplay of agency, culture and context in order to
consider the social embeddedness of money and trade at the margins of South
Africa’s economy. Focusing on small-scale, survivalist informal ...