Africa-Press – Angola. Saleswomen from the province of Luanda praised, this Tuesday, the provincial government’s initiative to combat disorderly sales and encouraged the massive participation of traders in the transfer process to formal markets.
Since last January, the Luanda authorities have carried out actions to raise awareness and mobilize agents involved in the mercantile chain, with a view to discouraging illegal sales in public spaces and formalizing their activity in official markets.
The aim of this initiative is to improve the image of the city and prevent vandalism of public spaces, such as pedestrian areas, sidewalks and roads, particularly on Avenidas Ngola Kiluanje, Avenida Cónego Manuel das Neves and adjacent areas, in the municipalities of Luanda and Cazenga.
It is estimated that these two avenues concentrate around 35,000 saleswomen, particularly around the perimeter of São Paulo, the Arreiou area, Gajajeira, the book building and along Ngola Kiluanje, as well as in the Hoji-ya-Henda area and all its extension to the Kikolo market.
The registration phase began last Monday, and covered two thousand six hundred and twenty-four informal saleswomen on Avenidas Ngola Kiluanje and Avenida Cónego Manuel das Neves.
The registration centre, based in the São Paulo market, with ten service points, registers a massive influx of saleswomen, at a time when sidewalks are being vacated, traffic flows more smoothly and the perimeter is being cleaned in various arteries of the city.
Of the 2,624 registered sellers, four hundred and five were included in the São Paulo market, where they started selling their products this Tuesday, at a daily cost of 150 kwanzas.
For this purpose, interested saleswomen must submit, when registering for this free process, a copy of their Identity Card (BI) and passport-type photograph.
According to Esperança José, who carried out informal sales for 21 years, she says she is very happy and confident with the place she has achieved in the market.
“I’m very happy to get a space here, now I won’t lose any more business with the inspectors and police races, right here next to Rádio Eclésia”, said the saleswoman.
The other saleswoman, who benefited from a space through this process, is Albertina Narciso, who also expressed her satisfaction at having obtained a fixed place to sell her products.
In turn, Mrs. Teti Domingos underlined that the process is free, only a copy of the Identity Card (BI) and a photograph are required.
She appealed to her colleagues to formalize commercial activities as it is more comfortable and safe.
Seller Domingas Calei, who has been selling informally for 12 years in the vicinity of the São Paulo market, considers that the process of assigning spaces in the São Paulo market is not transparent.
“I already registered about five months ago, before this campaign, but until now I have not been allocated a space for my sales, a fact that has made me upset with this massive process”, she lamented.
According to Nádia Neto, the spokeswoman for the follow-up to the census of Avenidas Ngola Kiluanje and Cónego Manuel das Neves, the Commerce Reorganization Plan (PRC) is running smoothly.
According to the administrator of the Urban District of Rangel, the objective is to register and insert more than five thousand saleswomen into the neighboring markets.
In addition to the São Paulo market, explains the person in charge, the saleswomen will also be integrated into the markets of Rangel, Chapada, in the two backyards of pedrinhas (urban district of Terra Nova), as well as for the 114 markets spread across the country’s capital.
In this sense, press found out that horizontal signs (delimitations on the floor) are in place in the corridors of the São Paulo market, to double the current capacity of the market, from 1026 stands, to around three thousand spaces for sale.
The spokeswoman added that the process will continue until all saleswomen are included in the formal circuit, in these avenues and adjacent areas.
On the other hand, Nádia Neto said that the reorganization of the saleswomen is allowing the cleaning of the streets, the desilting of the collectors, the timely collection of solid waste, in order to present a new image and safety in some arteries of the country’s capital.
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