informal business

Statistics South Africa has released the findings of a survey, which revealed that the number of people running informal businesses has increased from 1.1 million in 2009 to 1.5 million in 2013. According to the Survey of Employers and the Self-Employed (SESE) 2013 conducted by Stats SA, this was still lower than what was recorded in 2001, which was 2.3 million. The survey also found that people who started informal business did so because they had no other alternative. The survey, … [Read more...] about Informal businesses back on the rise