Informal traders have warned the Tshwane metro they would use the power of their vote to change what they regard as harassment by the metro police in the city centre.
Shoes Maloka, chairperson of their representative body the Tshwane Barekisi Forum, said the co-operative governance and traditional affairs department and the Presidency had failed to respond to demands informal traders delivered after a march to the Union Building early last month.
The traders wanted the Tshwane metro to be put under administration, claiming its management was corrupt.
They gave the Presidency 21 days to respond. Maloka said this period had expired without any response.
“We are disappointed about being ignored while we suffer maximum brutality in the streets of Pretoria. Our members are abused while trying to make a living through selling in the streets of this country that faces high unemployment rates and poverty,” Maloka said.
He said traders would meet next week to map the way forward on the issue.
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