Invitation to Ethekwini Municipality to join World Class City Campaign and engage in consultative processes in the lead up to the World Cup
21 November 2006 The Eye Traders`, Siyagunda and Phoenix Plaza Traders` Association demand the city consult with street trader organisations about the issues that affect their day-to-day efforts to earn an honest living and request negotiation and dialogue with the municipality. The organisations challenged the Ethekwini Municipality to join the World Class Cities for All […]
Durban – Where are Durban`s street children?
22 November 2007 By Sharlene Packree and Heinz de Boer (This article was originally published on page 1 of The Daily News on November 22, 2007) "Durban`s usually bustling street child colonies have all but disappeared from the city after what is believed to be a major police crackdown ahead of this week`s Fifa preliminary […]
Gauteng – Private security arrests informal traders for vending on trains and railway platforms
13 September 2007 Over 28 hawkers yesterday spent time at the Johannesburg Central Police station cells, others were assaulted for doing nothing criminal but selling snacks, fruits and soft-drinks at various railway stations and on trains in Gauteng. Security guards started shooting at the resisting hawkers arresting everybody deemed to be trading at Johannesburg Station. […]
Durban`s street wars – StreetNet International calls on Ethekwini Metro to negotiate in good faith with street vendors
25 June 2007 The Siyagunda Association, Phoenix Plaza Street Traders` Association and The Eye Traders` Association are concerned about draconian moves against street vendors intensifying in preparation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, with disastrous consequences for the livelihoods of street vendors and their families. The demands of the street vendors are to: put in […]
FNB Stadium hawkers
11 May 2007 2010 World Cup displaces breadwinners By Cheche Selepe, The Developer Thabo Mbeki and overseas people will come to watch the soccer world cup and they will never buy food from you, and therefore you must go.` This is the message that the stadium hawkers were told by Grinaker LTA, a construction company […]
Klerksdorp Oppenheimer Stadium – Hawkers should benefit
11 May 2007 By Cheche Selepe William Mxhakaza Mashiya (082 595-3776) (above) is the president of the United Hawkers Association in Klerksdorp, North-West province. The organisation has no office and most of its members peddle their wares just around the town-hall housing the municipal headquarters of Matlosana/Klerksdorp. He cites money problems as the impediment towards […]
Rustenberg Royal Bafokeng Stadium – Hawkers demand a pro-poor 2010
1 May 2007 By Cheche Selepe RUSTENBURG: David Mosome (above) is not just a hawker peddling hats, socks, nail-cutters and a host of other non-perishables under the bridge at the Rustenburg taxi rank. He is also chairperson at the local SA national civic association and a hawker leader. Mosome has joined the call by the […]
Abahlali baseMjondolo challenges the Notorious Slums Act in Durban High Court on 6 and 7 November, 2008
6 November 2008 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Thursday, 21 June 2007 noted: "Today the KwaZulu-Natal Elimination & Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Bill will be tabled in the provincial parliament. Abahlali baseMjondolo have discussed this Bill very carefully in many meetings. We have heard Housing MEC Mike Mabuyakulu say that we must not worry because […]
Durban: Evict refugees because “FIFA World Cup is around the corner”
1 November 2008 Patrick Bond, Centre for Civil Society, University KwaZulu-Natal wrote: Just taking a break from the scene of the confrontation, at Albert Park in central Durban, and have more information which can be verified by numerous witnesses: around 50 refugees, mainly women and children, were approached at 8am by Durban police, without warning, […]
SATUCC – Streetnet joint workshop organising workers in the informal economy, held at Booysens Hotel, Johannesburg
2 – 5 October 2008 2010 FIFA World Cup 6.1 SADC should commit to making the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which will be held in South Africa, into a SADC event; 6.2 SADC, SATUCC and StreetNet share a mutual commitment to ensure that the 2010 FIFA World Cup benefits the well-being of all the citizens […]
