Worker Education Material
Education Materials for Informal Economy Workers: Number 1: Recruiting Informal Workers into Democratic Workers’ Organisations Number 2: Building and Maintaining a Democratic Organisation of Informal Workers Number 3: Handling the Day-to-Day Problems of Informal Workers Number 4: Collective Negotiations for Informal Workers Number 5: Handling Disputes Between Informal Workers and those in Power Number 6: […]
Too busy clearing the streets of vendors to finalise the Commonwealth Games infrastructure
3 October 2010 "The Government of India is busy making the lives of New Delhi`s poorest communities that much harder instead of giving priority to completing the infrastructure preparations for the Games. There are at least 350,000 street vendors in New Delhi. How can you clear them off the streets? What is the rational in […]
Our challenge to the Ethekwini Municipality:
7 November 2006 Make Durban a World Class City for All In the run-up to the Fifa World Cup in 2010 It has become a predictable reality that, when a country prepares to host a high-profile international event, the country and its local government authorities prepare to create “World Class Cities” of a particular type, […]
Durban street trader organisations demand a halt to harassment and evictions
21 November 2006 Informal trade organisations are planning to march from Botha`s Garden (opposite Durban Christian Centre, Berea Rd) to City Hall on Tuesday 21st November 2006 at 10 am to demand a moratorium on police crackdowns against street traders until the review of the Ethekwini Municipality`s policy on informal trade is complete. The Eye […]
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 […]
