MINISTER of Local Government and Rural Development Gary Nkombo says street vendors who were operating in undesignated places had resorted to using Chibuku packs to answer the call of nature, which they disposed of everywhere around the CDB. And Nkombo has disclosed that about 600 street vendors have been accommodated in the new Soweto market and City market as of Thursday. Delivering a ministerial statement in the National Assembly, Thursday, Nkombo said council workers became overwhelmed with cleaning up fecal matter. “The issue of deserting the designated trading places spread like wildfire in our country, it became malignant even in areas where the crisis of the city market being gutted didn’t exist. In many of our towns in our country,...

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