“WOZA, makoti, woza, banana shibhile lapha! Only 10 pence a dozen, woza ...” The words rang out from all directions at the Early Morning Market in Durban as each stall holder, mostly Indian women in saris, coaxed customers to buy fruits and vegetables. The words were familiar throughout my early teens as a spindly-legged boy accompanying my mother to buy vegetables and fruit on Saturdays way back in the 1960s.
The current stand-off between the eThekwini municipality, who want to demolish the market to make way for a R400 million development, and the traders who are opposed to the move, appears to have united Indian and African traders. The eThekwini municipality had planned to have the market closed on July 31 so demolition could start, but the traders won a high court stay of execution last week.
Source: The Sowetan
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