Informal Trading march to protest the policies of the City of Cape Town on Thursday 3 June 2010 beginning at 10h00 from Kaizergracht and marching to the city offices.
3 June 2010 Mitchells Plain Traders are meeting at 7h00 in the Mitchells Plain Town Centre. Under the banner of the Western Cape Informal Traders Coalition, traders throughout Cape Town are staging a march against the city regarding evictions, intimidation and harassment by law enforcement, unjust administrative action and exclusion because of the FIFA World […]
International Labour Day
1 May 2010 Fair Games, Fair Trade Cape Town city rolls out plan for informal traders during the FIFA Games World Class Cities For All Campaign spokesperson Nkosinathi Jikeka said today that the decision taken by Cape Town City to extend opportunities to informal traders during the FIFA World Cup Games was welcome. "The WCCA […]
May Day 2010 is being celebrated just 42 days before the kick-off of the long-awaited African FIFA World Cup
1 May 2010 StreetNet International In South Africa, May Day 2010 is being celebrated just 42 days before the kick-off of the long-awaited African FIFA World Cup. In India, May Day 2010 is being celebrated 6 months in advance of the Commonwealth Games which will take place in Delhi in October. What do the workers […]
International Labour Day -StreetNet calls on host cities to work with vendors’ organizations so that FIFA games benefit the urban poor – not just McDonalds
1 May 2010 "Football fans are not travelling to South Africa just to eat McDonalds and Starbucks which they can get back home. But the FIFA Local Organising Committee has set up exclusion zones where South African vendors, and our migrant communities, providing authentic African food have no place. Instead it’s the big food chains, […]
International Labour Day – Workshops on the problem of Xenophobia to be hosted in Pretoria and Cape Town
1 May 2010 The World Class Cities For All (WCCA) Campaign is requesting firm commitments and action from municipal authorities to address the needs of the urban poor so as to halt more attacks against foreigners. "Host cities should establish consultation mechanisms with representative associations of the informal economy so as to ensure that the […]
Nothing for us without us! Maputo
7 May 2010 What is the World Class Cities for All Campaign? The WCCA Campaign was launched at COSATU House in 2007, by StreetNet International, and other organizations of urban poor, including slum dwellers, migrant and refugee communities. With the South Africa FIFA World Cup in 2010 in mind, its aim is to help create […]
Maputo: WCCA Campaign Workshop Declaration
7 May 2010 The participants at the World Class Cities for All Campaign Workshop, bringing together the StreetNet International Council members representing 385 622 members from 37 affiliates in 33 countries, from Africa, Asia and Latin America), representatives of the Global Unions (BWI,IUF,UNI,PSI,IMF) and SATUCC, representatives of street vendors in South Africa and Mozambique, meeting […]
Durban: “Questions over cops seizing traders` goods”, The Mercury, Kamini Padayachee
7 May 2010 The Durban Legal Resources Centre has questioned the practice of metro police confiscating traders` goods. This comes after Nomusa Ngema, of Umgababa on the South Coast, was charged in March for trading illegally and had her bundle of clothing she had been carrying on her head confiscated. Ngema, who works as a […]
“Who`s Feeling It? : Informal traders and the World Cup”, by Jennifer Elle Lewis, Gender Links
17 May 2010, Gauteng "As the whole country gears up for the quickly approaching World Cup 2010, not everyone is happy. Informal traders are waiting for a response this week from FIFA to demands made last week at a demonstration outside "Soccer City" protesting their exclusion from World Cup commerce. In the shadow of the […]
Women street traders talk about the FIFA World Cup
26 May 2010 A series of interviews was done in Nelson Mandela Bay by Maria Hedman, intern with StreetNet International. The interviews are part of the World Class Cities for All Campaign (WCCA) organised by Streetnet International. The WCCA campaign is concerned that vendors are not getting a fair deal out of the World Cup. […]
