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Johannesburg Street Traders Halt Operation Clean Sweep

By on September 01, 2014

Johannesburg Street Traders Halt Operation Clean SweepIn October 2013, law enforcement officers of the City of Johannesburg forcibly evicted over 6,000 street traders from a 24-block area in the City’s central business district. This case study details how over 2,000 street traders and their organizations in inner-city Johannesburg, aided and supported by a public interest law clinic, were able to use the courts to successfully challenge their eviction from their trading sites and the consequential threat to their livelihoods.

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