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The Tshakhuma Fruit Market was initiated some 64 years ago.

R4.8 million for Tshakhuma Fruit Market revamp

 

Fruit sellers at the Tshakhuma Fruit Market expressed joy and happiness after the Department of Small Business Development launched a R4.8 million infrastructure project that will see the development of the market. The event took place at Tshakhuma a fortnight ago.

The Department of Small Business Development's Min Lindiwe Zulu told about 400 vendors that the government had long realised that small businesses formed part of the economic backbone of the country. “Sometimes we always talk about big business and forget about small businesses like the ones which our mothers are operating here,” Zulu said. “Our government believes in vuk'uzienzele projects. Small businesses are the pillars of many families here in South Africa.”

The market infrastructure has been funded by the Department of Small Business Development through the Shared Economic Infrastructure Facility.

Zulu stated that it was important for the project's steering committee to be made up of vendors and not people who did not understand the problems affecting them. The acting mayor of the Makhado Municipality, Cllr David Davhana, said that the municipality had sincere respect for the “mothers and sisters” who continued to sell fruit and vegetables because such projects, if supported properly, formed part of economic stability in the Makhado area.

The proposed upgrade of the market will maintain about 400 full-time trading jobs created by the women of Tshakuma.

The chairperson for the Tshakuma Fruit Market, Mr Josias Raphalalani, said that the vendors appreciated the infrastructure budget from the Department of Small Business Development. “We will make sure that we are fully involved in the plan drawing by providing valuable suggestions as the Minister has requested us to do so,” Raphalalani said.

Min Lindiwe Zulu turns the soil during the sod-turning ceremony for the Tshakhuma Fruit Market infastructure development.

Ms Evah Madonsela (left) sells guavas to Ms Rendani Nemutavhani at the Tshakhuma Fruit Market.

Min Lindiwe Zulu (third from left) talks to some of the many vendors at the Tshakhuma Fruit Market.

 

Date:11 August 2016

By: Tshifhiwa Mukwevho

Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho was born in 1984 in Madombidzha village, not far from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province. After submitting articles for roughly a year for Limpopo Mirror's youth supplement, Makoya, he started writing for the main newspaper. He is a prolific writer who published his first book, titled A Traumatic Revenge in 2011. It focusses on life on the street and how to survive amidst poverty. His second book titled The Violent Gestures of Life was published in 2014.

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