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  • Legal Instruments

    Mangaung Local Municipality Street Trading By-laws

    This document contains the street trading by-laws for Mangaung Municipality in the Free State.

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  • Legal Instruments

    Queenstown By-law for the Supervision and Control of Street Vendors, Pedlars and Hawkers, 2000.

    This doucment contains the by-law that was promulgated to facilitate the carrying on of Street Vending, Peddling and Hawking in Queenstown. ...

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  • Presentations

    The Art of Survival

    Presentation from the Cape Town conference on research on the informal economy

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    African Centre for Cities

    The African Centre for Cities (ACC) is an interdisciplinary research and teaching programme focused on quality scholarship regarding the...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Street Vendors’ Laws and Legal Issues in South Africa

    Street vendors have few legal protections in South Africa. As they are not employees the basic rights of labour law do not apply to them...

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Empowering Market Traders in Warwick Junction, Durban, South Africa: Summary

    This impact case study summary gives a preview of the work done under WIEGO’s Inclusive Cities project with market traders in Durban’s...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Eastern Metropolitan Local Council of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council Street Trading By-laws, 1998

    This document contains the street trading by-laws that have been adopted by the Eastern Metropolitan Local Council.

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  • Legal Instruments

    Mossel Bay Municipality Street Trading By-laws

    This by-law is promulgated by the Mossel Bay Municipality to provide for procedures, methods and practices to regulate and control street...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Regulations Under Health Act, No. 63 of 1977, 1999

    This document contains the regulations governing general hygiene requirements for food premises and the transportation of food.

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Street Trading in South Africa – Organizing Workers

    Through their experiences of organizing in the markets of Durban, leaders of the growing movement of street vendors have gained greater confidence...

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