To provide strategic leadership and guidance towards the
management of informal and formal businesses through the
formulation of policies, strategies and support programmes for
informal traders and to ensure compliance of informal traders
Coordinate processes towards the effective development and
implementation of policies, programmes and strategies for
informal and formal businesses
Ensure compliance of formal and informal businesses with the
Businesses Act, 1991 (Act 71 of 1991) and the Street Trading
By-law
Ensure the implementation of the Informal Trade Policy and Street
Trading By-law
Provide support in terms of facilitation of synergistic linkages
to support the robust development and growth of informal traders
across the value chain for financial and non-financial
interventions
Develop and maintain the database for informal and formal
businesses
Identify the training needs of various groups within the sector
and identify linkages based on a set of tools available on the
database from either internal organs of state or supplied by
service providers and provide recommendations
Develop systems that will improve the registration and management
of informal traders in Tshwane
Put systems in place to improve revenue collection
Liaise with stakeholders and role players to create awareness of
informal trader opportunities and support requirements to promote
business activities in the informal sector
Harness good working relations between informal and formal
businesses
Facilitate meetings, workshops, conferences, functions and
interviews
Provide guidance to the executive body that represents the
informal traders in Tshwane (seven regions)
Facilitate and manage the strategic partnership between the
section and key partners in the sector
Link informal and formal businesses for the development of
informal traders
Assist in designing partnership agreements with donors,
departments, agencies and non-governmental organisations
Assist in the formulation of financial policy instruments and
support programmes regarding access to finance for informal
traders
Ensure that informal traders access the market or they manage to
access procurement opportunities provided by the government and
other government institutions
Ensure that there is proper infrastructure for the development of
informal traders in all regions
Establish informal trade markets in all seven regions
Develop infrastructure plans for all the projects to be
implemented that are in the Integrated Development Plan
Facilitate the development of stalls, paving, etc in all areas
that informal traders are allowed to trade
Ensure the maintenance of informal trader infrastructure in all
seven regions
Interact with other City departments to include the informal
trader infrastructure when implementing their projects
Facilitate the mentorship of informal traders
Provide support programmes for the development of informal
traders through training
Conduct skills audits for the development of informal traders
Ensure that informal traders are incubated to develop their