In most of the developing world, city streets are routinely turned into sites of confrontation and intimidation as police try to clear away hawkers.
Images of a recent showdown in Johannesburg’s inner city assail me: women running with crates laden with fruit and vegetables; potatoes, cabbages and tomatoes strewn over pavements; idle young men ready with makeshift push carts to stash some of the goods away; vendors calling out a warning of looming danger to their peers further down the street.
Source: AHU – Our correspondent
Edited by: AHU – Gyula Balázs Kisvárdai
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