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Bulletin F A R 9 June 2017
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A hawking good spin
The Greater Tzaneen Municipality (GTM) has managed to spin their way out of responsibility once again. A month ago, we published the first article on the illegal street hawkers trading next to the R71 national road which runs through Tzaneen, past the Lifestyle Centre. At the time, the GTM acknowledged the problem, but claimed that they could not interfere or remove the traders as the R71 was a national road, outside their jurisdiction. “It is a SANRAL problem”, they said. A week later, we spoke to Provincial Traffic Chief, Victor Khumalo. According to him, the hawkers along the R71 were allegedly given permission illegally by someone within the GTM, to trade along this busy road. He also said that the traffic cameras erected by the GTM to trap speeding motorists were not legal as the road does not fall within the GTM’s jurisdiction and they therefore were not permitted to trap there. “Speak to the magistrate to confirm this and you will see the truth,” he said. The GTM’s spokesperson, Neville Ndlala, responded last
week saying that the hawkers were a problem which the municipality would solve through the help of their law enforcement officers. He even provided a deadline. “We have not approved or issued any permit to any hawker to operate on the R71 road, or any national or provincial road,” said Ndlala. “If you are privy to such information or the existence of such permits, you can provide us with such evidence. With regard to addressing the hawkers challenges, our law enforcement has a planned programme to be implemented from the 14th of June 2017. Next week they will be conducting road blocks. The programme will include the removal of illegal hawkers and confiscation of illegal goods.” Bulletin approached Ndlala on Wednesday morning during a protest action at the municipal offices and asked him whether the GTM was still on track for the removal of the hawkers. “No, not the hawkers on the R71, that is not our jurisdiction and it is a SANRAL problem. I was referring to the hawkers in the centre of town,” he said. Ndlala also said that he is in possession of a very lengthy document which
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contains proof of the legitimacy of the R71 traffic cameras, and that he would hand Bulletin a copy in due course. “It is a very lengthy document and too big to send via email so I will be more than happy to give you a hardcopy.” His response seemed contradictory to his official comment a week earlier. In our media enquiry, we made reference specifically to the R71 hawkers. Why would Ndlala issue a response referring to an entirely different matter altogether, when the subject matter was stated very clearly? Where will the GTM be conducting road blocks, if not on any of the national roads leading into town and how will these affect the local taxi associations’ operations in the CBD? There does not seem to be any clarity as to who is responsible for the policing of the R71 and how, or when these illegal traders will be removed. This despite them having been issued with eviction notices from SANRAL exactly two weeks ago yesterday. — Joe Dreyer joe@bulletin.us.com
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