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Original Articles

Do street traders have the ‘right to the city’? The politics of street trader organisations in inner city Johannesburg, post-Operation Clean Sweep

Pages 1102-1129 | Received 08 Sep 2015, Accepted 11 Jan 2016, Published online: 29 Feb 2016

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