Municipality breaks down hawker stalls
Burgersfort was painted red as the Municipality was breaking down hawker stalls and removing building materials and waste on Tuesday.
BURGERSFORT – The town was painted in red on Tuesday as contractors were breaking down hawker stalls and removing the materials.
Greater Tubatse Municipality (GTM) installed a project where hawkers would from now on have to obide to the rules of the municipality. The municipality engaged in several meetings with the Tubatse Hawkers Association in the past where they issued them a court order allowing hawker stalls to be removed.
Hawkers also received notices to break down their stalls before the end of April. Most of them didn’t oblige the notice.
The first phase of the project which is currently taking place is to clear Eddie Sedibe Street from Maphutha Ditshaba to Toyota. According to Thabiso Mokoena, spokesperson of GTM contactors have already been appointed to build proper stalls on designated areas where hawkers with permits will be able to occupy the stalls for a small fee of R120 per year.
The next phase will see Hawkers being cleared from Toyota to the Clinic.
Read more in Steelburger/Lydenburg News on Friday or by clicking here.
Click here to read where the allocated areas for temporary stalls are
