The City of Cape Town has in compliance with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s lockdown directive decided to close all markets - public and privately managed - including street trading with effect from midnight on Thursday.
This restriction also applies to all informal traders who operate in street trading and markets in free trading zones and regulated areas, for example, along main roads.
Mayor Dan Plato said: “This has been a very tough decision to make but it has been taken to protect and mitigate the spread of the deadly pandemic among the vulnerable residents in our city as markets and street trading are popular spaces that attract many people.
“The City therefore pleads with all traders to co-operate and work together with us.”