Currently, South Africa's informal urban sector is marked by a plethora of migrants from peripheral rural areas in pursuit of socio-economic emancipation. Thus, understanding rural-urban sector dynamics in incipient economies such as South Africa's, which account for 60-90% of urban employment, is pivotal for any plan, programme and policy intervention aiming to alleviate poverty. Whereas the informal urban sector is renowned for its staggering capability to absorb the unemployed, unskilled and uneducated labour force, inter alia, it has created a space for the perpetuation of crime, illegal/semi-legal micro trades, pollution and the corrosion of urban streetscapes. Understandably, this paper argues that rapid urbanisation gives impetus to the birth of an urban biased nexus between the rural sector and the informal urban sector. This is because of the in efficacious absorptive capacity of the nascent rural sector to sustainab