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Kar vir 24 uur Dee-Effers se ‘tuiste’ Vier skole het die afgelope naweek sake uitgespook om die titel van #VREESloos2018 te wen. Die wakkerbly-uitdaging het oor 24 uur in die Tygervallei-winkelsentrum gestrek. Hier is (van links) Ben Marais, Hayden Pypers en Morné Gaven van die Hoërskool D.F. Malan. Meer foto’s en inligting op bl. 2. FOTO: CAREL STANDER PHOTOGRAPHY
ILLEGAL TRADERS: TAKING OVER TAXI RANK
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he vexing problem of the so-called traders, who are illegally selling their goods in the park area of the Durbanville taxi rank, is threatening to boil over. The “traders” are increasingly becoming aggressive and threatening towards Law Enforcement officers, councillors or anyone approaching them. TygerBurger experienced this first-hand on Monday morning while taking photographs, when two of the “traders” started throwing bricks at the reporter while berating her using foul language. This distasteful situation has been a hot issue among neighbouring businesses and residents for about the past 18 months. Local
business owners and residents have been complaining daily about the unsightly litter left by these “traders”. Despite numerous site visits and operations over the past four months, the problem persists. However, says Theresa Uys, councillor for ward 112, the residents who are – in a spirit of goodwill – handing out used homeware, clothes and kitchen and household appliances to vagrants or “traders” at the Durbanville taxi rank, or putting these items out in their weekly dustbins, are largely contributing to this problem. She told TygerBurger the Durbanville taxi rank was identified in 2014 as a World Design capital project for upgrading. The taxi rank would have been upgraded to a Public Transport Interchange (PTI) to cater for the larger population expected with the Garden
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Cities development, as well as the extension of the MyCiTi routes to Durbanville in future. “A development plan was compiled by stakeholders during a workshop. The budget of about R3m was redirected in 2015/16 to rather upgrade the Bloekombos taxi rank, because it was then said the amount was not enough for the complete upgrading project in Durbanville,” Uys said. A total of 25 traders, including three food caravans, have been granted permits to do business as informal traders at the Durbanville taxi rank and were allocated specific spaces in 2105 as part of a plan to regulate informal trading, Uys said. The situation got out of hand about 18 months ago when there was an influx of “pop-up traders” who started to take over the park area of the taxi rank. “It became an
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acute problem in the past six months. We have identified that some of their goods on sale have either been stolen or scavenged from bins, but the largest portion are big items, such as ironing boards, which have been handed out to them by our own residents,” she said. Uys said she had witnessed herself how people had come and offloaded their used braais, ironing boards, baby toys and even a broken deep-fat fryer while she was doing a walkabout on Friday 12 October. She said it has become increasingly dangerous for her to go to the site due to the aggression of some of the traders. “Law Enforcement officials regularly remove them, but we are too under-resourced to have a permanent Law Enforcement officer on site daily. V To page 2.
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