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Enough with metro police brutality on informal traders
The Ecumenical Service for Socio-Economic Transformation (ESSET) condemns in the strongest possible terms the punching and kicking of an informal trader, Andries Ndlovu by four uniformed metro police
officers in Ivory Park, Midrand. According to Sunday Times, Ndlovu was beaten on Freedom Day after he asked the metro police officers why they were beating another informal trader, a 60-year-old welder who demanded a receipt or notice when his goods were impounded by the same metro police.Read more.... |
ESSET Study Research on Solidarity Finance
ESSET has just recently completed a research study on Solidarity Economy and Finance. The research was carried out through undertaking study visit to Brazil in 2011 to gain first hand experience on the concept of Solidarity Economy and also through conducting desktop research on Solidarity Finance. These are concepts amongst alternative economic and financing models practised by some countries across the world that contest the neoliberal agenda but also displaying the agency of the poor. Read more....
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Response to 2012 Budget Speech
ESSET, an independent ecumenical organisation that works for social and economic justice welcomes Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan’s melded and promising Budget speech. Read more.... |
SADC Informal Traders Campaign Update.2-
It is our honour to inform you that Women Informal Development Forum (WITF), a structure representing women informal traders will be picketing and making a submission to the Office of the Deputy Minister of Trade & Industry. The picketing and the making of submission form part of the SADC Informal Traders Campaign against Sexual and Economic Violence, which is aimed at raising awareness of the struggles and human rights violations of informal traders within the SADC countries. Read more... |
SADC Informal Traders Campaign Update
A committee of informal traders in Lesotho led by a trader association
called Khathang Tema Baitsukuli and partnered by Lesotho Council of Churches yesterday (16/11/2011) held a rally with councillors and the Market Master in Mafeteng. Read more.... |
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