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Le document de la campagne et la plateforme des demandes qui seront présentés aux municipalités StreetNet est en train de solliciter la coopération des organisations intéressées à se joindre à sa campagne de villes du niveau mondial pour tous ( WCCA) en Afrique du Sud, dans la quelle StreetNet est en train de contester l'approche traditionelle élitistique de bâtir "les villes du niveau mondial" en préparation de la coupe du monde de FIFA en 2010 - et demande de créer un concept nouveau, plus inclusif de "villes du niveau mondial pour tous" avec la participation des vendeurs de rue et d'autres groupes du pauvre urbain. La campagne mettra beaucoup d'accent sur les femmes et d'autres vendeurs vulnérables qui sont les premiers à prendre leurs sources de revenus, et les plus invisibles dans la plupart des plans des villes du niveau mondial.Le document de campagne et la plateforme des demandes qui seront présentés aux municipalités:
Les nouvelles des partenaires de la Campagne Negotiations with GreenPoint flea-market traders, Cape Town, who are to be moved for duration of 2010 Games: Read Report from Cape Voice radio: 8th October, 2008. http://www.vocfm.co.za/public/articles.php?Articleid=41703 Housing rights and FIFA World Cup 2010 Games 6th October, 2008: Centre on Housing rights and Evictions (COHRE), Geneva report on housing rights in Durban issued on Monday 6 October, 2008, says Ethekwini Municipality should abandon idea that a "World Class City" means hiding the poor. Further, it should not allow preparations for the 20101 World Cup to encourage unjust housing practices. Full text of report can be obtained from COHRE website: http://www.cohre.org/southafrica News report in the Daily News "Change Outlook on Housing" http://www.dailynews.co.za/index,php?fArticleld=4646692 International Decent Work Day, 7th October, 2008 Green Point - Decent Work Day 7 October - Click here for Campaign Poster for Decent Work for Decent Life Towards and Beyond 2010 WCCA
(World Class Cities for All) campaign Statement on Dismissal of
construction workers 28th
June, 2008: StreetNet
International, the international federation of street vendor
organisations with over 300 000 members in 34 organisations in 30
countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and leader of the
World Class Cities for All (WCCA) Campaign: Notes
with concern the unfair dismissal of
more than 70 workers by the Mbombela
Joint Venture company building the 2010
stadium in the Mbombela Municipality in
Nelspruit.
Supports
COSATU’s call for
The WCCA campaign was launched
in South Africa on 28 November 2006 to challenge traditional
elitist First-World approaches to building World Class Cities,
and create a new, more inclusive concept of “World Class Cities
for All” as the country prepares to host the FIFA World Cup in
2010. This is the
South African part of an international campaign initiated by
StreetNet International in May 2006, which has now been launched
also in India by the National Alliance of Street Vendors of India
(NASVI – StreetNet’s largest affiliate) in preparation for
the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010. Issued
by Pat Horn International
Co-ordinator StreetNet
International Telephone: 031 -3074038 The death of two evicted from Joburg's pavement another sign of anti-poor policy By Cheche Selepe, World Class Cities for All Campaign Media Officer
9th
June, 2008: The
deaths of two out of the 126 hawkers, including immigrants,
evicted by the city of Even
without medical evidence on the causes of their deaths, the fact
that they were both poor and were evicted from their trading
stalls two months ago makes it hard to believe that the causes
are unrelated. 'Since
the evictions she would walk from one hawker to the next asking
for transport fare to get back to her shack in impoverished
Kliptown-Soweto,' says a traumatised hawker, adding that: 'If she
could not afford transport fare, what about food.' Well,
like the majority of poor people, Motshedisi
Mogwesa left her home town in Matatiele in the Eastern
Cape for a better life in the 'city of gold'. She
survived peddling fruits, sweets and vegies on a city of Joburg
demarcated trading pavement
down-town Jeppe Street. Her
late colleague used to repair shoes on a demarcated trading
pavement on Jeppe Street until their dreams for a better living
were shattered by the city of Joburg on March 8, this year, and
now they lie dead, their dreams unfulfilled. It
was on this fateful day that the city of Joburg impounded stalls
it built for the hawkers at tax-payers expense deeming them
undesirable, cause for crime, obscure the unmanned CCV cameras
and lots more excuses. The
city did not just remove the stalls, but it enlisted the services
of the notorious Red-ants to remove poor Motshedisi and the rest
of others including an HIV positive single-mother of four. Feeling
a sense of guilt for evicting poor people who never defaulted on
paying rent in legally demarcated trading spaces, the bureaucrats
on Loveday Street, Braamfontein, sought an alternative for their
victims. The
breadwinners including the dead two were relocated to the
shameful Bree Street taxi rank inside a building that failed
dismally to be a fresh produce market. Motshedisi
was elected member of a committee to talk to the municipality on
the matter, holding two meetings with the CEO of the state owned
Metro Trading Company's Alfred Sam demanding return to the
pavements. At
one meeting an HIV-positive woman painfully cried loud, begging
Sam to return her to the pavement because her health demands that
she eats fruits everyday. All
Sam could do was to admit the injustices meted against poor
Motshedisi and others promising to resolve the crisis by mid-May.
Even today he is still resolving the matter. He was short of also
conceding to the popular fear that the city is planning to ban
all street trading in Joburg and replace it with the often
expensive linear market. Most
hawkers believe that the deaths cannot be divorced from the
frustrations caused by broken promises and the increasing poverty
they and the dead had to endure daily. The
hawkers committee shall meet the MTC today at eleven and then
address the public at twelve (12h00) today. Bree
Street Taxi Rank/Mall. At
the MTC offices. Nothing
for us without us! No
relocation without alternatives! Negotiations
and social dialogue! Contact
details: Hawker
Jeff 082
594 9997 Statement by the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) in support of the memorandum of demands by the One Voice Of All Hawkers Association (OVOHA) 23 April 2008: One Voice Of All Hawkers Association (OVOHA) will this week deliver a memorandum of demands (pasted below) to the Johannesburg mayor. The Anti Privatisation Forum identifies with the struggle by hawkers to find a future in this city that is hostile to the poor. As much as the APF is waging struggles for housing and basic services, OVOHA is fighting for the rights of hawkers to make a living. The determination of the authorities to remove hawkers from the city's pavements is in keeping with the offense by police and local government to evict poor people from their homes and disconnect services. The very existence of the poor mars the City Council's vision of Joburg as a 'world-class' city, and its response is uniformly to remove or sideline people that are inconvenient to this vision. The poors' presence in the inner city has been made criminally liable. Hawkers have been targeted, their goods and only means of survival confiscated by the Johannes- burg Metro police who troop about town to also issue fines as high as R500 to people least able to afford it. The street patrols and roadblocks set up by the police also disguise a strong xenophobic drive. Immigrants (and dark complexioned South Africans) are the almost exclusive targets of the police's attention because they are vulnerable and the police hungry for bribes. South Africa may claim to be hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup on behalf of the African continent but Joburg's preparation strategies involve deporting as many African immigrants from the country as they can fill trains to the borders with. The Gauteng Hawkers Association was a part of the early beginnings of the APF when it was participating in the Anti-iGoli 2002 Forum. The renewed voice of hawkers in the shape of the OVOHA is welcomed by the APF. The demands we level to the City are so similar that the affinity between our struggles is unbroken. The Forum supports the hawkers' struggle for a space in the city, and more broadly for a space for the poor in the city Joburg is becoming. JOBURG
CITY BELONGS TO EVERYONE WHO LIVES, Anti
Privatisation Forum ONE
VOICE OF ALL HAWKERS ASSOCIATION (OVOHA) MEMORANDUM
OF GRIEVANCES TO We the above mentioned organisation (One Voice of All Hawkers) representing hawkers who are trading here all over in Johannesburg have gathered to deliver our grievances to your offices. We live in a country that has more than 40% of our population unemployed and more than 50% living below the poverty line. These are people who were previously disadvantaged under the apartheid government and are struggling to survive under the dire conditions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Since 1994 more of the country has been worse off and they have no access to basic service like water, education, housing, employment, electricity and health. We live in a country that has a high rate of crime and many people have resorted to doing crime as a living. But many of us (hawkers) have tried to do what is called 'Vukuzenzele' by trading or selling our products on the street or where ever possible we can access local markets. The political conditions in the country have seen the enforcement of municipalities coming up with many by-laws and there has a crack down or City clean up. This is done to pave way for Economic development for Soccer World Cup Finals in 2010 and other big events. If our voices are ignored then war is eminent in the country because poor people will rise up and get their share in the economy. The events will be ungovernable if the government fails to listen to the people in the country. We demand
Cape Town Mayor plans to sue police after street vendors' raid o This article was originally published on page 4 of Cape Argus on March 18, 2008 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20080318111 418533C147204 Mitchells Plain police hit at traders, again March 18 2008 at 05:30PM - For the second time in five days, Mitchell's Plain police on Monday raided stalls in the town centre shopping district The latest raid comes after a tense stand-off between informal traders and police last Thursday when police allegedly stormed the area and assaulted traders, including a pregnant woman. Police combed the area to evict illegal traders and immigrants, at the same time destroying at least 1 000 stalls and seizing a large amount of stolen goods. About 22 people, including illegal immigrants and people found in possession of drugs, were arrested. Mitchell's Plain police commissioner Jeremy Vearey said their inspections were "simply normal" police business and they would continue with their raids. "This is normal police business and last week's actions were also normal," Vearey said. While walking among the stalls and inspecting goods, Vearey told the Cape Argus that Mitchell's Plain police would continue in their search for counterfeit goods, vendors' licences and obstruction of security cameras covering the town centre. Vearey on Monday said they would give traders till Tuesday to comply and said the traders had been given a fair warning by the police. "When we come back we will break down stalls and issue fines to all people who are not abiding," he said. A heavy police presence remained in the area as Vearey made his rounds. He was surrounded by heavily armed plainclothes and uniformed police officers. "Isn't this a copy of Hi-Tec?" he asked one of his subordinates while inspecting a pair of trainers. One trader who declined to be named said he had been feeling victimised by police since last week following the violent raid police had conducted. "They have actually accused us Somalians of selling drugs and stolen goods and we do not do that. "We are hard workers," she said while clutching her baby to her side. Another vendor cheekily asked how skilled Vearey was at differentiating between counterfeit and authentic goods. Abdulkader Karakoos, chairperson of the Somali Community Board, said it had listed names of police officers who "stole" (from its members) and assaulted them last Thursday. Karakoos said that Vearey's presence amongst traders on Monday was all part of his excuse to justify the police action on Thursday. Tensions remained high in the area with some Somali traders saying they had been afraid to set up their stalls. Meanwhile, Cape Town Mayor and DA leader Helen Zille is to lay a complaint against police after their raid on the traders. Mayoral spokesperson Robert MacDonald said Zille had not yet laid the charges and was currently seeking legal advice. MacDonald said Zille would lodge a complaint with the Independent Complaints Directorate or alternatively seek court action for compensation for the damage which has been estimated to be close to R2,5-million. Durban Street Children This article was originally published on page 1 of The Daily News on November 22, 2007 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20071122091820152C486964 Where
are By
Sharlene Packree and Heinz de Boer
City
manager Dr Michael Sutcliffe has however strongly denied the
allegations, saying he would "never condone" such
police action.
A
social worker, who asked not to be named out of fear of falling
foul of city authorities and who works at a "Hopefully this is the last time it happens. They can't keep doing this to these children. We should find a permanent solution," she said. Sipho Mabaso, who works with street children at the Sakhisizwe Reception Centre near However, since Monday, "On average, we see about 5 or 10 children at the reception centre. I haven't seen any of these kids since Monday," he said. Mabaso said it was "very suspicious" that the children are nowhere to be seen at a time when there were international delegates and media in the city. "Everybody knows street children are a problem in "Dealing with street children is a social welfare issue, and the Metro Police is not involved. We as the city will never be associated with that. "It has been an issue discussed at the Joint Operations Centre, and police have been instructed to certainly take away their glue if they are seen with it. "Obviously there is a heightened police presence now, so the street children tend to not hang out as much," Sutcliffe said. Gauteng hawkers - Private security arrests informal traders for vending on trains and railway platforms September 13th: 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. Tiisetso is a hawker staying in Mapetla Soweto, relating the events says: "Yesterday many hawkers were arrested. They were loaded on trucks."
"Are
the security meant to guard criminals or hawkers?" asks one
trader. He
maintains that like many others, he is selling because he is
hungry. With the little he earns he pays for his shack and
buys clothes for his school-going children.
The leader of the SA Railway Hawkers Association Augustine Mqaba says, "the arrests and assaults on hawkers by the private security guards contracted to the state passenger railway company Metrorail has reached uncontrollable levels." "SARHA staged a march recently to the Gauteng provincial government. Later we marched to the president's office in Pretoria demanding a moratorium on their continuing harassment and evictions. Despite the on-going negotiations since the march, the crisis at the stations continue unabated because they are imposing their own decisions on us," says Mqaba. Durban Street Children
Durban's street
wars
- StreetNet International 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 place a transparent system of regulation which is inclusive (i.e. does not criminalise the majority of the city’s 25 000 street vendors by refusing them trading permits); - enforce the Recommendations of a Review of Durban’s Informal Economy Policy undertaken in 2006 (which proposes that the system of regulation must cater for all street vendors, and avoid police action except as a last resort); - establish an independent Commission of Enquiry into all facets of corruption around the issue of street trade permits; - reform the Ethekwini Informal Economy Forum (EMIEF) to function as a proper negotiation forum where all stakeholders have equal rights to advance their positions – not a one-way conveyor belt for municipal officials to issue commands and instructions to street vendors. Press Statement: Durban's street
wars - StreetNet International Durban Street vendors 2007 platform of demands South African Railway Hawkers Association (SARHA) march- Railway hawkers march to Pretoria to deliver memorandum to President in protest over harassment: Wednesday 16th May 2007 - SARHU demands include a moratorium on all evictions of hawkers on the railways and stadiums and places where hawkers try to make a decent living. The SARHA memorandum further demands information sharing and dialogue on the budget allocations for informal trade and disclosure on who is responsible for making decisions affecting informal trade in the country. SARHA has called for a general review of all policies affecting informal traders. Press Release on SARHA march to Union Building SARHA Memorandum to President Thabo Mbeki
Rustenberg Royal Bafokeng Stadium - Hawkers demand a pro-poor 2010 Friday 11th May 2007 - '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 charged with the redevelopment of FNB's soccer city stadium situated between Soweto and Johannesburg.The livelihood of the hawkers and their families is under a serious threat from the construction company. Accordingly, most of the hawkers have been selling at the stadium during soccer matches for many years. The situation changed in January this year when the soccer matches came to end as the stadium came under reconstruction. Since the hawkers had no where to go, they decided to sell food to the very workers doing the construction at the stadium. Surely this became a boom for the hawkers. Instead of trading only on weekends during the soccer matches, they traded every working day, selling food to the construction workers. As business was going on, the management of the construction company decided to frustrate the hawkers. They started telling hawkers that the food they sell might be unhygienic and therefore they must go. The management decided to restrict the flow of workers in and out of the work-place. All other gates of the stadium were closed, opening only one gate – the main gate. Having only 30 minutes lunch time between 12H00 and 12H30, it became increasingly difficult for the workers to enter and exit the workplace for lunch without compromising the bosses' time.
Coupled with time restrictions, the construction company tells the hawkers
that four BEE companies have been enlisted and shall sell food at the
stadium within months.
On hearing this sad state of affair, the leaders of the SA Rail Hawkers
Association (Sarha) took the matter up with the union organising
construction workers, the National Union of Mineworkers (Num).
At a meeting with a NUM shopsteward the hawkers were are assured that
solidarity with NUM is guaranteed. He indicated that just as the
construction companies are having subcontractors assisting them, it could be
advisable that even the enlisted BEE caterers subcontract the work to
hawkers as well. Amandla!!!
November 8th and 27th: The World Class Cities for ALL campaign is making very interesting process as we are now engaging into the third campaign stage, namely the negotiations with the municipalities. In November, a World Class Cities FOR ALL! campaign delegation met with two of the FIFA Cup Host SA Municipalities: Cape Town on Nov 8th and Johannesburg on Nov 22th. Each meeting was preliminary to the negotiation process, in the sense that it introduced the campaign purpose and objectives, tabled the demands, and discussed a way forward for the negotiation. The WCCA delegation presented a proposal for a Stakeholders' Forum (linked to demand no 6) to serve as the basis for discussion of how to engage more systematically. WORLD CLASS CITIES FOR ALL (WCCA) CAMPAIGN - MEETING with JOBURG MUNICIPALITY MEETING with JOBURG MUNICIPALITY 22 November 2007
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- 8 Mars 2007:
Johannesburg -
WORLD
CLASS CITIES FOR ALL (WCCA) CAMPAIGN Report of National
Strategising Seminar with World Class Cities FOR ALL
Campaign Partners on
7 and 8 March 2007 in Orchidea Hotel, Braamfontein Le communiqué de press: "ON THE MOVE TO 2010:26 Janvier 2007: Johannesburg - StreetNet makes presentation on WCCA Campaign to the NEDLAC Community Constituency meeting to discuss FIFA World Cup 2010. 28 Novembre 2006: Johannesburg - La campagne de VNMT sera lancée en Afrique du Sud à la conférence de Presse a COSATU House, Braamfontein. La plateforme des demandes qui seront présentés aux municipalités ont eté annoncé. Orateurs:
Organisations présentes: -
COSATU (Alinah Rantsolase, National
Treasurer) 21 Novembre 2006: Durban - Les organisations, The Eye Traders Association, Siyagunda Association and Phoenix Plaza Traders’ Association demande à la municipalité de consulter avec les organisations des vendeurs de rue à propos des problèmes qui affectent leurs efforts quotidiens de gagner une vie honnête et demande la négotiation et dialogue avec la municipalité. Les organisations défient de la Muncipalité Ethekwini à se joindre à la campagne de villes du niveau mondial pour tous (VNMT) qui demande qu'il y ait un processus consultatifs conduisant à la coupe du monde de FIFA de 2010 pour s'assurer que les venduers de rue, et les autres groupes du pauvre urbain, ne sont pas inilateralement expulsés sans alternatives, ou inutilement désavantagés par les plans de renouvellement urbain. "INSELELE ESIYIPHONSELA UMASIPALA WASETHEKWINI: YENZA ITHEKU LIBE YIDOLOBHA ELISEZINGENI LOMHLABA KUBO BONKE ABANTU NJENGOBA SEKUSONDELE INDEBE YOMHLABA YEFIFA NGO-2010" (IsiZulu)
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