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Informal traders score with 2010
INFORMAL traders will be catered for during the World Cup as they will be able to continue their business in designated high-traffic areas.
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Joburg group is top exporter
ANODES and ancillary equipment made in Johannesburg is exported around the world, winning the manufacturer a leading award.
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Traders boost their business skills
SEVERAL hundred informal traders have successfully completed the Grow Your Business course, run in conjunction with the City, at Wits University.
* Video: MMC talks about the course
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Traders learn about doing business
THE last class of the year has completed the Grow Your Business course, which equips informal traders with valuable business skills.
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Joburg market goes plum crazy
THREE traders were rewarded in a competition designed to promote plums at the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market.
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Informal traders learn new skills
THE private sector has been challenged to help the government support small medium and micro enterprises, and so join forces in the fight against poverty.
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Global SEN meeting comes to Jozi
FOR the first time, the Service Exporter Network, an annual international gathering of the export services sector, will be held outside Europe, and Johannesburg has been chosen to host the meeting.
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Comment sought on hawking by-laws
THE City has published draft revisions of the by-laws regulating informal trading, and is asking the public to comment on them.
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Fresh produce market has big plans
THE Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market is to undertake significant changes that will allow it to compete on an equal footing with private distributors.
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MTC boss focuses on growth
THE head of the Metropolitan Trading Company is keen on helping informal traders and public transport operators learn new skills so that they can gradually grow into the formal economy.
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Skills boost in second economy
TRADERS attended a business course, while taxi operators learned first aid, all in the name of the City drive to improve skills in the second economy.
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City enforces hawking policy
JOBURG is 'committed to providing infrastructure and facilities for informal traders', a vital component in its economy and the means of survival for many of its citizens.
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Joburg empowers informal traders
BASIC business skills are being taught to informal traders, equipping them with the means to grow their businesses.
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The rise and rise of hawking in the city
SINCE she was retrenched by the airport company, where she worked as a cleaner, seven years ago, 40-year old Mmaphefo Moeng has been preparing and selling food from a gazebo inside the recently renovated taxi rank at the corner of Pim and Queen Streets in Newtown. She has an established client base - mainly taxi drivers - and makes enough money to take care of herself and her two children. She has never fallen foul of the law and knows where she can and cannot sell. "Only traders who obstruct pavements get arrested. It's fine here. I have access to water and electricity and I don't have to pay rent."
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Traders taught business skills
Grow your Business is designed to improve the skills of informal traders, making them better, more successful business people.
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