SEWU is also actively involved in writing submissions or grant proposals to government institutions and inter-national bodies in order to improve the situation of women working in the informal sector. It is very difficult to organise this sector and there are disadvantages but we overcome most of them. For sur-vivalist street traders, time away from their sites, during trading hours, means money lost. This is one of the basic barriers to setting up and main-taining any trader s organisation. Going to meetings, or even taking time off to talk to an organiser in the streets, is problematic.
Street traders generate other informal employment.
These are some common examples. They are paid R3.00 per barrow load. In return for this, they are allowed to share the site of the street trader and to sell their own goods on the site. Its members are both in rural and urban areas. The key issue of SEWU is to negotiate with Municipal Authorities in urban areas for better facilities to street vendors.