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Assessing the role of street traders' organisations in empowering street traders in Durban-CBD.Mulume-Oderwa, Chorivu. January 2009 (has links)
Whether in the rich Western countries, or the Southern Hemisphere developing countries, street trading is a socio-economic phenomenon which provides employment to millions of poor and marginalised communities, allowing them to survive despite socio-economic and political constraints. Well aware that their empowerment cannot come or be initiated except by themselves, they find in organising an empowerment will-power which triggers collective action toward influencing change of institutional practices and processes which often marginalise and put them under unnecessary pressure. In this environment, street traders’ organisations’ role tends to be limited to meeting the direct causes of their current concerns as crises arise and therefore leave in the oblivion deep causes which lead to their marginalisation. Weakened by their constituencies’ economic situation, they often fall into fatalism and often become easy-targets and victims of non-inclusive municipal processes. By organising and building strong organisations they are likely to emancipate themselves from exploitative practices and processes and to claim a share in matters concerning their interests as equal stakeholders without any discrimination or exploitation but for the sake of empowering disadvantaged communities. Therefore the choice of this study was instructed by the feeling that empowered street traders’ organisations in Durban-CBD can play a major role towards the integration of street traders in the city socio-economic framework. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009.
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The effects of Durban Municipality's informal economy policy on informal market management : a case study of Millennium Market, Phoenix.Pillay, Candice. January 2008
No abstract available. / Thesis (M.Sc.U.R.P.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.
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African immigrants in Durban : a case study of foreign street traders' contribution to the city.Sidzatane, Ndumiso Justice. January 2011 (has links)
This dissertation explores the livelihood activities of Durban's African migrant street traders. The study also seeks to gain insight into the challenges that confront them as well as the perceptions that local street traders have of them. The researcher argues that migrant street traders make a contribution towards the economic development of the city. Migrant street traders are attracted to Durban because of the economic opportunities that the city offers as well as the fact that it has a lower crime rate than cities such as Johannesburg. The concept of livelihood strategy was used to develop the theoretical framework that guides the research. The study makes use of the qualitative research method. Fifteen in-depth interviews were conducted with migrant and local street traders, who were a mixture of male and female. Of the fifteen interviewees, ten were migrant traders (five females and five males) and five were local street traders (three females and two males). The research was conducted in the Central Business District (CBD) in the vicinity of the Workshop Shopping Centre. The findings of the study suggest that migrants make an economic contribution (albeit not a substantial one) to the development of the city. Some of the local street traders recognise this contribution while others do not. Migrant street traders encounter difficulties in accessing the finance and capital necessary to start their entrepreneurial businesses. The other major problems experienced by the migrant traders in the city are to do with crime, the metropolitan police, local government officials, securing of a suitable accommodation, and accessing trading sites, education and healthcare. The research concludes by recommending that the business-training sessions that are arranged by the municipality of local street traders be open to migrant street traders as well. Local communities should also be educated about the positive role of the migrants in the city. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011.
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HIV/AIDS in the informal economy : an analysis of local government's role in addressing the vulnerability of women street traders in Durban.Lee, Sabrina. January 2004 (has links)
The study was motivated by a concern for the high vulnerability of poor African women to
HIV/AIDS in South Africa and an understanding of their role in the growing informal trade
sector in Durban. As the institution responsible for managing informal trade development, this
study examines the role of local government in addressing AIDS vulnerability and impact
within this economic sector.
Local government in South Africa is at the centre of potentially conflicting policy agendas:
promoting citizen participation in social and economic development while creating an efficient
and competitive local economy. The research outlines how the challenge of meeting these
divergent goals has influenced policy approaches to informal trade and the extent to which
these constrain or support women traders and their enterprises. The study examines how this in
turn influences their economic vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. The study also explores the
institutional attitudes and current approaches to addressing HIV/AIDS in the informal trade
sector and explores the potential for a targeted and integrated response.
In-depth interviews with local government staff and external stakeholders were used to
investigate institutional perspectives on the significance of HIV/AIDS and the importance of
creating appropriate local level interventions within informal trade settings. Interviews also
assessed current management and support strategies for informal trade and examined whether
these create an enabling environment for women to protect themselves and their enterprises
against the threat and impact of HIV/AIDS. Interviews were supported by an extensive review
of gender and HIV/AIDS literature and analysis of relevant policy regarding informal economy
and SMME development in South Africa.
The study found that the multiple pressures on local government, as well as institutional
restructuring and staff changes have inhibited progress towards implementing an effective
management strategy for informal trade. A lack of regulation threatens the security and
livelihoods of survivalist women traders, and high barriers to obtaining permits to trade impact
negatively on women due to their multiple constraints and responsibilities. The study revealed
that priority in providing holistic business support, including skills development and financial
services, is skewed towards more profitable enterprises which has excluded most women
traders. This has restricted women's productive capacity and enterprise development and
heightened their economic vulnerability to HIV infection and impact. This is compounded by a
lack of functional, representative organisations to convey the concerns of marginalised female
traders to local government.
It is likely that the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in informal markets in Durban is high. However,
stigma and discrimination has prevented widespread disclosure. The vulnerability of women
and the impact of HIV/AIDS on their enterprises and local economic development is recognised by staff working at street level, but not by key decision makers. This, in
conjunction with the marginalisation of the sector as a whole, has influenced the lack of
progress in developing a co-ordinated multidisciplinary response to HIV/AIDS among informal
workers. Few interventions which directly address HIV/AIDS have been put in place in the
informal workplace, largely because of a lack of understanding of the crisis; its
conceptualisation as a health issue only; and the fixed location of local government's response
within the health department.
Acknowledging the resource and capacity constraints within local government, the study
concludes by outlining a series of realistic potential interventions which can be mainstreamed
within the standard functions of local government. A shift in thinking is required to
conceptualise AIDS as a workplace issue, and recognise the significance of its economic
impact. Women traders need to be considered as valuable and vulnerable workers, as well as
mothers and carers and therefore as an important group for targeted HIV/AIDS interventions.
The study calls for gender-sensitive measures to be implemented, which recognise the specific
needs and constraints of women in the informal trade sector. / Thesis (M.Dev.Studies.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2004.
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