Cape Town's elderly targeted for selling baked goods, rental by-law claims

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Cape Town residents say pensioners and struggling families are being threatened with R800,000 fines as the city intensifies action against informal home businesses.

Residents in Hanover Park say elderly pensioners and struggling families are being threatened with massive fines and possible jail time as the City of Cape Town intensifies enforcement of zoning and by-laws against informal home businesses.

The complaints emerged during a discussion on Cape Talk on Tuesday, where community leader Gary Hartzenberg accused the city of targeting poor residents trying to survive on social grants and small-scale trading.
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R13... said:
Neither would the ANC. Only the DA love doing these though it is unfortunately a bylaw that bears enforcement. They did the same when they ran EKH for a short while. A lot of people running unregistered businesses from home found out quick enough
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Yes, but ANC don't even fix potholes.

I'm okay with this unless you're an illegal foreigner or a squatter on stolen land.
 
R13... said:
Neither would the ANC. Only the DA love doing these though it is unfortunately a bylaw that bears enforcement. They did the same when they ran EKH for a short while. A lot of people running unregistered businesses from home found out quick enough
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Why target small home businesses in poor areas?
You don't get more fked up than that, people are trying to make a plan and not rely on hand outs, cottage industry is as old as time itself. Yes clamp down on them if the business starts to get bigger than just mom and pops but until then it's as stupid as you can get.
 
This is Karen-DA instead of Milton Friedman-DA.

IMO, applying a law like this to every single home based business is retarded. It should be permissionless for enterprises under a certain revenue.

Rather focus on the nuisance. If someone gets sick and reports a home business for unsanitary conditions, COCT can investigate and fine if they are running an indian-street-food tier level establishment.
 
But wait, we are against social grants..
where community leader Gary Hartzenberg accused the city of targeting poor residents trying to survive on social grants and small-scale trading.
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oh.. Now I get it.
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airborne said:
These tannies from Hanover Park must get a grip...
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I was being sarky.

I still have some home based food idea in mind but I know that Certificate of Acceptability (COA) is required for COJ so I did some due diligence and registered for online course. However, I also talked to 2 chefs and they told me that most home based businesses don't bother because COJ doesn't act on this.

Worst that can happen is if neighbor/some customer complains, inspectors visit the premises and warn the business owners with some 28 day notice of compliance but nothing comes of it if they don't comply.

As a person who is looking to enter into this type of industry, it seems right to me that COA should be obtained. Reality is that such by-laws are not really enforced.
 
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