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Street traders are central to food security in Johannesburg. But since being declared an essential service under lockdown, street trade in South Africa’s biggest city has returned to uneven ground
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Johannesburg’s hub of second-hand garment traders – run under the leadership of the African Traders Organisation – woos trendy and indigent customers.
But the thriving informal economy situated near the department’s Marabastad offices is now feeling the pinch, thanks to its increased efficiency.
Macroeconomic events go right down the line to those struggling to make a living on the streets.
Precarious work is becoming the norm as bosses increase their levels of exploitation.
In each of the SADC’s 15 member countries, millions of women traders are putting SADC’s vision into practice.
The eThekwini municipality’s power to impound and confiscate the goods belonging to traders was found to be unconstitutional, invalid and unlawful.
Informal traders were swept off Jo’burg’s streets in October and although the city now appears to have embraced them, their future remains uncertain.
The city’s informal traders say they’re the victims of arbitrary, violent removal from their stalls, but Tshwane denies its police harassed them.
Security guards have allegedly shot one of the men protesting against the ill treatment of vendors at the hands of the Tshwane Metro police.
Several informal traders in Pretoria have complained of vicious physical attacks by members of the Tshwane metro police.
The City of Jo’burg has admitted in court that lawful informal traders were removed from the streets along with illegal ones in Operation Clean Sweep.
The Constitutional Court will hear an application for Johannesburg hawkers to be allowed to resume trading in the city centre.
An informal trader has laid criminal charges against metro police officers for allegedly assualting her and another hawker.
Disgruntled hawkers in Johannesburg have forced businesses in the CBD to close.
Johannesburg hawkers will have to wait a little longer before they know if they can return to the streets.
Judgment has been reserved in the urgent application brought by Johannesburg street vendors who want to be reinstated back to trade in the city.
The City of Jo’burg will face two similar court challenges next week, seeking to interdict the "illegal" eviction of informal traders from the city.
The informal sector has lost income following a City of Johannesburg’s programme halting hawkers from doing business, says the DA.
The City of Jo’burg is about to face its second court application regarding the "illegal" removal of informal traders from the inner city centre.
The SA Informal Trader’s Forum has announced plans to take the City of Johannesburg to court over the removal of informal traders in the CBD.
The City of Johannesburg wants to begin a re-registration process of informal traders in certain areas, it said on Saturday.
High-handed evictions in Jo’burg’s inner city have condemned the street traders and their families to penury.
Hawkers protested outside Safa House in Soweto on Wednesday, saying they were struggling to survive after being evicted from around Soccer City.