The owners have confirmed Joburg's popular downtown market will not be shutting shop. Picture: iStockJohannesburg’s Neighbourgoods Market in Braamfontein is not shutting down, says co-founder Cameron Munro.
“The whole rigmarole started due to a WhatsApp message in the trader’s group,” says Munro, where a former employee suggested the market’s demise. “We are still in the grip of the pandemic,” he says, and as such it did thrown a spanner in the works, but one which is in the process of being resolved. “This is how I make my living and when the pandemic hit, my income nosedived to zero. Many traders have out of necessity had to exhibit at other markets to try to eke out a living.”
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