PEDRO MZILENI | Black women street vendors generate notable wealth

The latest 2022/23 socioeconomic data published by Stats SA shows that black women who originate from rural provinces are the poorest group in the country. In other words, the racial, gendered, and geographic legacy of apartheid still remains in place and all existing mechanisms that have been tried since white minority rule formally ended are not changing this reality.

As a result, poor black women from the country’s rural margins have migrated to the cities to look for a better life – and the structured exclusions of the formal economy have pushed them out to the street trading space to survive. In every city and town in SA, the streets are occupied by black women who sell fruits, vegetables, cooked food, and clothing.

In a recent research study I conducted with my honours student, Ms Thembi Mba, we show that black women as street vendors are able to survive out of this kind of work; they raise families, and they also open stokvels where they converge their earnings and profits to generate significant wealth. This revelation was different from the usual defeatist presentation of black women street vendors as a people who are victims of poverty, single motherhood, abuse, and divorce.

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