An Exploration of Street Vending's Contribution Towards Botswana's Vision of Prosperity for All by 2016

This article is a critical appraisal of the pros and cons of street vending and shows that with proper regulation and control; within the parameters of freedom to economic opportunity and success, street vending could be a positive though not a core force in the socio-economic transformation and development of poorer urban communities. The romanticism and pedantic controls and regulation need not prevent street vendors from exercising their inventiveness. This represents a challenge to the view that prosperity can be attained only by promoting large-scale public and private economic enterprises and suggests the need to provide everybody with the latitude to contribute their own share, however meager individual contributions and accomplishments may appear.