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. […]
Renowned world leaders Mary Robinson and Ela Bhat call on FIFA President to support StreetNet demands
27 May 2010 StreetNet International/World Class Cities For ALL Campaign Writing to the FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, on the occasion of All Africa Day, Mary Robinson, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Ela Bhat, founder of the Self-Employed Women`s Association, strongly commend the proposals developed by Streetnet International, through their World Class […]
Rustenburg municipality fails in bid to remove the informal traders in Rustenburg from the streets
31 May 2010 WCCA Campaign organiser Paul Shambira reports that: Rustenburg municipality has lost their bid to remove the informal traders in Rustenburg from the streets after the court told them that it was illegal. The court order of 2007 bought by informal traders against municipality to stop their removal is still in force. For […]
