Hands off hungry hawkers - International Socialists

Monday, May 25, 2020

Bus Rank hawker Batsweletse King Can Mogabala with the police PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

PRESS STATEMENT: International Socialists Botswana stand in solidarity with the hawkers and informal sector traders who are systematically displaced from the space they have been operating at for many years.

The hawkers took space not as an act of provocation, but out of desperate need to make a living in order to survive and feed their families.

It is extremely painful and insensitive to see how our local authorities and private owners make use of the Coronavirus crisis to evict vulnerable people in times where they need support, as they have already lost their livelihoods for many weeks under lockdown.

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