Poverty efforts a farce

This is the position of owners of roadside tyre repair shops in Mogoditshane following a council crackdown on the repair shops, all of which are unlicensed.

"Yes we are unlicensed because council claims that we cannot be issued with a special license to operate our repair shops. All they keep telling us is that owners of big businesses that do what we do are complaining that we are taking their customers," said Joseph Marope. On this day Marope and others had gone to Mogoditshane police station to redeem their tools and other merchandise that had been confiscated by the police at the instigation of the District Council.