South Africa: Traders vs Transnet - Court Case Has Consequences for Informal Businesses

Mogwase's informal traders argue that closing their businesses will make them dependent on the state

The Mahikeng High Court will soon hear an application brought by Transnet to evict more than 40 informal traders from land which it claims to own in Mogwase, North West Province. The informal traders are represented by the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI), who have raised a novel defence that could radically alter the circumstances in which the state may evict informal traders.

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