Informal

(Photo by Nardus Engelbrecht/Gallo Images via Getty Images) Nearly a third of informal workers were "locked out" of employment during April, at the height of lockdown.Researchers suggest government increase social protections to informal sector participants substantially.Interventions call for the extension of the special Covid-19 grant to the end of 2020. To better protect informal workers from the…

Tobacco association plans to fight government's U-turn on cigarette salesThe NCCC, however, allowed spaza shops and informal traders to trade essential goods with a permit, in a bid to allow them to earn a living during the pandemic.SAITA - which conducts business in communities as traders - claims that smokers are now risking their lives…