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groups; the municipal officials and the informal traders. The researcher made use of both&#xd;
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which pose serious control challenges to the municipality.&#xd;
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traders; enhancing public participation; limiting overtrading, integrated management planning,&#xd;
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   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="description" qualifier="abstract" lang="en_US">This study focused on The Integrated Development Plan as a strategy to empower informal&#xd;
traders using Thohoyandou as the case study. The study was conducted at Thulamela&#xd;
Municipality and at the informal markets of Thohoyandou. The researcher used two population&#xd;
groups; the municipal officials and the informal traders. The researcher made use of both&#xd;
qualitative and quantitative methods as the study was explorative in nature; 50 informal traders&#xd;
were sampled and took part in the study and on the other hand, 20 municipal officials were&#xd;
sampled and participated in the study. The researcher made use a pilot survey to two groups&#xd;
of population to test the efficacy of the interviews schedule as well the questionnaires as data&#xd;
collection instruments. SPSS and Microsoft excel were used as tools for data analysis.&#xd;
The results show that Thulamela Municipality’s IDP strategy is not doing enough for the&#xd;
informal markets in Thohoyandou. However, respondents indicated that shortcomings such as&#xd;
Limited Budget affect the success of IDP on informal trading. Initiatives such as the provision&#xd;
of loans, workshops, training and promotion of LED programmes were indicated as having&#xd;
been put in place in an effort to empower informal traders, although a number of informal&#xd;
traders in the Thohoyandou area are forever increasing, through urbanisation and migration&#xd;
which pose serious control challenges to the municipality.&#xd;
To manage informal trading in Thohoyandou, the researcher recommended that there could&#xd;
be: preferences on trading fee/levies; provision of services and infrastructures to informal&#xd;
traders; enhancing public participation; limiting overtrading, integrated management planning,&#xd;
policy formulations and that future researchers can be more specific on aspects such as:&#xd;
situation of foreign traders; constitutionality of by-laws and trading at intersections.</dim:field>
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   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="subject" lang="en_US">Integrated Development Plan</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="subject" lang="en_US">Local Economic Development</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="subject" lang="en_US">Informal trading</dim:field>
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   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="subject" qualifier="lcsh">Small business -- South Africa -- Limpopo</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="subject" qualifier="lcsh">Street vendors -- South Africa -- Limpopo</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="subject" qualifier="lcsh">Peddlers and peddling -- South Africa -- Limpopo</dim:field>
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