Formal policies and informal power: Johannesburg's street traders

by Kenny Hlela. Centre for Policy Studies, Johannesburg. June 2003 

Trading policy in Johannesburg aims to remake the appearance of the inner city, and transform power relationships through two key elements. (1) By removing traders from the streets, and to place them in council-provided markets; and (2) to develop informal trading into a more dynamic and commercially viable activity for those people who earn their living from it. This CRP report has looked critically at this policy objective, and underpins a number of problems in assimilating formal and informal policy networks.

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