Vendors protest non-payment of compensations in Maputo’s old fish market – Watch

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Vendors protest non-payment of compensations in Maputo’s old fish market – Watch

3:11 CAT | 27 Jul 2022

Photo: Notícias

The Maputo Fish Market on Costa do Sol beach was at a stand-still this morning as vendors came out onto the street in protest. They say that the compensation promised by the municipal authorities when they were removed from the old fish market in the ‘Maritimo’ area has not been handed over.

Vendors say that the municipality’s promises included monetary compensation, and that they are now astonished to see buildings being erected on the site of the old market without any compensation being forthcoming.

Protesters shut down their business, displaying posters and singing songs demanding the fulfilment of the promises supposedly made by the municipality.

“We want compensation for the sale of the old [fish] market and the house on the site, because we are the legitimate owners of the stalls in the old market,” Notícias cites one unidentified vendor as saying.

Notícias online reported earlier this morning that “the sellers and the authorities are negotiating a meeting in the old fish market”.

The complaints also concern the fees they pay at the new Fish Market, which the protesters consider unsustainable. According to their calculations, vendors pay more than 7,000 meticais per month, not all of which is receipted.

The demonstration caused slow-moving vehicles to back up along the Chihango-Costa do Sol section of Avenida Marginal, Notícias adds.

Source: Miramar / Notícias