what tells you that street vendors have no security ?

Street vendors are an integral part of urban economies around the world, offering easy access to a wide range of goods and services in public spaces. They sell everything from fresh vegetables to prepared foods, from building materials to garments and crafts, from consumer electronics to auto repairs to haircuts.

STREET vendors operating at the exit of the taxi rank in Langalibalele Street opposite the Natalia building say they are fed up with being harassed by the Msunduzi Municipality’s security guards.

They said this on the morning of Tuesday at around 7.05 am after the Echo journalist witnessed a security guard confiscate boxes of fruit said to belong to one street vendor operating in the area.

The guard was questioned by the journalist about this and he stated that only street vendors who sell biscuits are allowed to operate on that spot between 7 am and 8 am.

This, he said, is an agreement that was made between the municipality and the street vendors.

One street vendor confirmed the agreement, adding that it was made some time last year between the two parties.

However, the vendors said the security guards sometimes pitch up during the agreed hour that they are authorised to operate in outside the rank, and disrupt their businesses.

They added that the guards sometimes pay them a visit three times a day.

According to some of the street vendors, the last time the security guards went to the spot in question was last Thursday morning, just before the taxi strike erupted and engulfed the CBD.

A seller, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of victimisation, said she once witnessed a security from the municipality slap a vendor during the guards’ rounds at the spot outside the rank.

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Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014?is an?Act?of the?Parliament of India?enacted to regulate?street vendors?in public areas and protect their rights. It was introduced in the?Lok Sabha?(Lower House of the?Parliament of India) on 6 September 2012 by then Union?Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation,?Kumari Selja.[1]?The Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha on 6 September 2013 and by the?Rajya Sabha?(upper house) on 19 February 2014.The bill received the assent of the?President of India?on 4 March 2014.The Act came into force from 1 May 2014.