The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has announced that 24 hours’ notice will be given to East Ruimveldt Market vendors and persons squatting along Mandela Avenue to desist from illegal activities, though vendors in that area said they had been told nothing of the sort.
According to a press statement issued by the M&CC on Thursday, as the city’s sanitation and management programmes continue, a 24-hour ultimatum has been given to the vendors and squatters, who are breaching the city’s rules and regulations.
The statement explained that persons who are illegally occupying public spaces on the western side of Mandela Avenue with makeshift structures and East Ruimveldt market vendors who have constructed illegal structures that are taking