For years the government has been promising to regulate informal sector economic operators. No credible action has been taken to fulfil this promise.

However, the deaths of dozens of black schoolchildren appear to have bolted the government into action. A week ago the ministers of health, state security, police and small business commissioned an investigation into the deaths of children in the townships of Gauteng and parts of Mpumalanga. ..

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