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‘Thugs wait here’ Not only the farmers and formal business owners are up in arms about the growing informal trader community, but passengers and pedestrians too. “We can’t walk on the pavements when we go shopping in town because there is no space anymore. Month-end is worse especially when you have kids and you’re using public transport to and from town,” said one single mother who lives in Lenyenye but works in Tzaneen. “It is not safe here with these traders. Many of us are mugged or harassed between those stalls, but you can’t see what’s happening there because it is so overcrowded. Thugs, mostly illegal immigrants, hide here and wait for your cell phone or salary.” Despite regular discussions with the GTM on the illegality of these
traders and their contravening of the Health and Safety Act, the municipality has done absolutely nothing to solve the problem. Talks on this topic go as far back as a decade ago. The SABC’s actuality programme ‘Fokus’ spent the week in Tzaneen to film a short documentary on the impact of fresh produce and timber theft on the local economy. They also looked at how this crime is fuelled by the need for informal traders such as the hundreds of local street hawkers, to stay in business. It is estimated that as much as 80% of the produce these street traders sell come from theft off farms in the area. To read more about their visit, take a look at the full article in this week’s AgriBulletin inside this edition.
It is not a new problem, but one that seems to be escalating out of control. In the photograph of Tzaneen’s central business district above, we kept only the hawkers, their stalls and their produce in colour while desaturating the rest of the image in an effort to highlight the urgency of the matter. There are so many hawkers here now, that the photograph still looks like a colour image.
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