This content requires Adobe Flash Player version
or later.
Either you do not have Adobe Flash Player installed,
or your version is too old,
or there is a problem with your Flash installation and we were unable to detect it.
Large number of hawkers Business skills Site availability Permits
Corruption
Law enforcement Stock availability
%
21 19 15 14 9 7 4 4 2
Table 4 shows that the biggest problem is crime. This was also indicated as other problems (see below) in terms of customers stealing (25%), or customers not paying (6%). Lack of access to funding was rated the second biggest problem. Some respondents did not indicate the problems in the structured question section but indicated it in the open-ended question section. These problems are:
Ÿ customers not paying (6%); Ÿ lack of funding to improve/expand business (20%); Ÿ lots of competition (17%); Ÿ drunken customers (3%); Ÿ stealing customers (25%); Ÿ no shelter (25%); Ÿ lack of access to water (3%); Ÿ other hawkers disrupt trading (3%).
As can be seen lack of funding to improve/expand business was indicated by 20% of the respondents. The large number of hawkers also posed problems as it intensified competition as can be seen by seventeen percent of the respondents indicating severe competition as a problem. Three percent of the hawkers also indicate that other hawkers are disrupting their trading. Lack of business skills was also indicated in Table 4 as a problem. Site availability or lack of a shelter was also indicated as a problem, especially when raining. Few respondents had no problems (5%).
IMPROVING THE TRADING ENVIRONMENT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN HAWKERS INDUSTRY 54