WCCA DEMANDS TO MUNICIPALITIES 

1. Formally adopt an inclusive concept of “World Class Cities for All” with the participation of street vendors and other groups of the (urban) poor – with a strong focus on women and other vulnerable street vendors who traditionally have been the first to lose their livelihoods and be the most invisible in previous plans for “World Class Cities”.

2. Undertake to ensure that no individual or group of street vendors shall be unduly disadvantaged by any urban improvement or urban renewal initiatives in preparation for the FIFA World Cup of 2010.

3. Undertake that any relocation of street vendors, informal market vendors or hawkers in operation prior to any urban improvement or urban renewal initiatives shall necessarily include viable and acceptable alternatives which are accessible to even the poorest traders, including women and traders with disabilities.

4. Undertake to engage in participatory consultative processes with any persons or interest groups who may be affected in any substantive or material manner by any aspect of urban improvement or urban renewal initiatives envisaged in the creation of World Class Cities.

5. Undertake to engage in social dialogue or substantive negotiations with any potentially affected persons or groups or their democratically elected representatives, in any situation where urban improvement or urban renewal initiatives may have a bearing on their work or livelihood.

6. Establish multi-stakeholder negotiating forums in each city to ensure inclusive non-sectarian negotiations and consultations processes, guided by the draft Code of Conduct accepted by street vendors’ organizations in 2004 as part of the process of forming a South African national alliance of street vendors (which is not yet complete) and the following:

-      local govt. representation to include regulators as well as enforcement agents, and SALGA or provincial local govt. association representatives;

-      street vendors to be directly represented by their own elected representatives, with due regard to the representation of women (in the proportions in which they are found on the streets) and vendors with disabilities;

-      street vendors operating as fronts for small or big business, or with substantive conflicts of interest, will not be regarded as bona fide street vendors’ representatives;

-      forum structures to be determined with participation by all parties to avoid unintended marginalisation or de facto closed shop situations;

-      Municipal workers’ unions (SAMWU and IMATU) and SAFA (S.A. Football Association) to be represented as interested stakeholders. 

7. Commit to the WCCA campaign of StreetNet International leading up to the FIFA World Cup in 2010.

World Class Cities for all !!  

No relocation without alternatives !!  

Negotiation and social dialogue !!  

Nothing for us without us !!

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