informal traders

Informal traders within the City of Johannesburg stand to score big during the 2010 FIFA World Cup if they adhere to the international soccer body's by-laws.

In a press statement, the city’s spokesperson, Sibongile Mazibuko, says that, "Though trading will not be permitted in exclusion zones around the stadiums on match days, new opportunities are being created for traders to benefit from being situated in high-fan traffic areas."

South Africa’s poor have headed government’s call to do it for themselves in the spirit of vukuzenzele. To millions of people affected by poverty and unemployment, the most obvious option to ‘do it for yourself’ is to start small business initiatives such as selling fruits and vegetables, clothes, fast food at a street corner, and operating ‘spaza’ shops.