Finance and Economic Opportunities

(a) (i)  As an autonomous sphere of government municipalities are not regulated to submit municipal permitting statistics to provincial and/or national government. The WCG has however requested and received the information below from municipalities -with regard to the total number of permits issued per municipality. As sole proprietors/SMMEs do not require municipal permits to trade, municipalities have not captured, nor submitted permitting numbers for these businesses.

(ii) Table showing the total number of permits per municipality that has been approved for informal traders:

(aa) Municipalities have however, not specified total figures permitted during level 5.

(bb) Municipalities have however, not specified total figures permitted during level 4.

(b) (i)   We have requested information but have not received a response.

(ii)   We have requested information but have not received a response

(c) Each municipality has its own qualifying criteria, however, over the alert levels 5 and 4, the national regulations required the minimum criteria to include an Identity Document or Refugee Permit.

(i) Some municipalities required that informal traders should have the following documents accompanying the application:

•   An existing trading permit where one may have been issued prior to COVID-19 lockdown;

• A valid certificate of compliance where one may have been issued prior to COVID- 19 lockdown

 (ii) Categories of business activity is different across different municipalities, but the broad categories include: fruit and vegetable trading; fresh and frozen fish, automotive repairs and cleaning services, clothing and textile manufacturing, art and culture activity trading, beauty, health, bakery, meat, wood and general dealers.

(iii) No demographic profiles of businesses permitted was provided.