Hawkers take a stand

IN A recent meeting, hawkers and businesses agreed that the stands built by AbaQulusi Municipality in Mason Street near Demoina Lane are of no use to them.

According to the minutes of this meeting, which took place at Vryheid Plaza on July 14, the hawkers made it clear that they have no intention of utilising the stands and that they should be demolished “as soon as possible.”

However, these hawkers have allegedly requested permission to “use the wood and roof sheeting from the demolished hawker stands to provide for their own stands…”

It goes on to state that the businesses in the area are in agreement that these stands have caused them to lose business, despite the fact that the stands are not being utilised by the hawkers, and that the turnover for some of the businesses in the area has dropped substantially.

“All stakeholders are really concerned about the water crisis in Vryheid and it seems that neither the Municipality, nor the Provincial Government, nor National Government has any rescue plan to save Vryheid and its residents and its businesses,” concluded the document, signed by Shaun Badenhorst, Jaco Dercksen, Stembiso Zungu and the Hawkers’ Chairperson, Sibusiso Henry Maduma.

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