War over Warwick rages on
Traders get third court order to open market

June 16, 2009 Edition 1

Lyse Comins

The war of Warwick Junction rages through Youth Day after traders obtained a third court order against eThekwini authorities.

The Early Morning Market traders secured another Durban High Court order yesterday forcing the municipality to open the market to legal traders tomorrow.

This came in the wake of another violent clash with Metro Police and a day of lost trade yesterday.

The Early Morning Market Traders' Association chairman, Harry Ramlall, said his attorney was scheduled to meet the city's legal counsel in court again today to clarify the dispute over legal and illegal traders in the market.

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6 000 WARWICK JUNCTION INFORMAL TRADERS AFFECTED
Anger over R400m mall plan

May 21, 2009 Edition 1

Lyse Comins

TENSIONS heightened yesterday over the effects of a proposed R400 million shopping mall in Durban's bustling Warwick Junction, as city officials and academics met representatives of 6 000 angry informal traders.

The traders, who fear the development will destroy their businesses, threatened to march to the city hall next Tuesday to protest against the development and what they say is a lack of consultation with traders and a "failure to follow the tender process".

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Traders feel threatened by development

May 20, 2009 Edition 1

Lyse Comins

Inanda woman Ntombikayise Gagayi, 44, works diligently in her makeshift kitchen in Durban's bustling Warwick Junction, where she cooks bovine heads for a living.

These she sells to her customers - a fraction of the estimated 460 000 commuters that travel daily through this busy intersection of traffic, train station, taxi ranks and bus terminals.

Gagayi, whose husband was killed in political violence in the early 1990s, depends on this passing trade to support her 10 children. She is one of 30 widows who sell bovine heads and other plated food at the junction's open-air food stalls.