Yazar: Godfrey Tawodzera

This is report is the most comprehensive study yet of the contribution of migrant and refugee entrepreneurs to Cape Town�s local economy. The survey of over 500 entrepreneurs engaged in trade, servic …

Zimbabwe has witnessed the rapid expansion of informal cross-border trading (ICBT) with neighbouring countries over the past two decades. Beginning in the mid-1990s when the country embarked on its E …

One of the defining characteristics of many large cities in the rapidly urbanizing global South is the high degree of informality of shelter, services and economic livelihoods. It is these dynamic, s …

This report examines the impact of xenophobic violence on Zimbabweans who are trying to make a living in the South African informal sector and finds that xenophobic violence has several key character …

This report compares the business operations of over 2, 000 South Africans and refugees in the urban informal economy and systematically dispels some of the myths that have grown up around their acti …

The nadir of Zimbabwe�s political and economic crisis in 2008 coincided with the implementation of a baseline household food security survey in Harare by AFSUN. This survey found that households in l …

This report examines the food security status of Zimbabwean migrant households in the poorer areas of two major South African cities, Johannesburg and Cape Town. The vast majority were food insecure …