Die niewinsgewende organisasie Charleston Hill Action Group (Chag) het verlede jaar \u2019n Saterdagmark op die been gebring om di\u00e9 gemeenskap ekonomies te bemagtig n\u00e1 die slae van die pandemie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Errol van der Hoeven, voorsitter van die Charleston Hill Saterdagmark-komitee, is die idee van die mark drie jaar gelede gebore op \u2019n vergadering van Chag. As gevolg van die pandemie kon die eerste markdag eers einde verlede jaar plaasvind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOp 27 Mei 2021 het ons \u2019n aansoek aan die munisipaliteit gerig. Daarna volg vele besprekings met munisipale amptenare asook met ons wyksraadslid. N\u00e1 \u2019n vergadering met \u2019n gesondheidsamptenaar van die Kaapse Wynland-distriksmunisipaliteit, wat ons behoorlik ingelig het oor die higi\u00ebne-toestande waarin kos berei mag word, het ons gere\u00ebl dat al ons kosverkopers aansoek doen om voldoeningsertifikate. Op 13 November 2021 hou ons, ons eerste markdag,\u201d verduidelik Van der Hoeven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die markdag is \u2019n geleentheid vir plaaslike entrepreneurs en kunstenaars om hul produkte te verkoop en hul talente ten toon te stel. Daar is tans 32 stalletjies by die markdae. Die organiseerders poog om twee keer per maand die markdag te hou. Van der Hoeven s\u00ea stalletjiehouers betaal \u2019n minimale fooi aan die organisasie om die markdag se koste te dek. Hy maak dit ook duidelik dat die markdag nie net beperk is tot inwoners van Charleston Hill nie, en nooi ander entrepreneurs vanuit die bre\u00eb Drakenstein om ook aan te sluit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie Charleston Hill-Saterdagmark is gestig met die uitsluitlike doel om ons gemeenskap ekonomies te bemagtig. Die mark se onmiddellike invloed was ook die skep van \u2019n sin van gemeenskap\u00adsamehorigheid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Inwoner van Charleston Hill, wat nie by naam genoem wil word nie, voer aan dat die markdae onwettig is en dat die regte prosedures nie gevolg is nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die persoon beweer ook dat daar ander inwoners is wat kla oor die geraas wat die markdag veroorsaak en dat Drakenstein-munisipaliteit glo \u201cgunsies\u201d verleen aan die organiseerders. Hy voeg ook by sy lys van bewerings dat die markdae sonder toestemming op munisipale grond in Mont Vue-laan plaasvind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di\u00e9 bewerings is egter as onwaar bewys. Van der Hoeven het al die nodige bewyse rakende die wettigheid van die markdae aan Paarl Post<\/span> verskaf, onder meer kommunikasie tussen die organiseerders en die munisipaliteit. Die ekonomiese groei- en toerisme-afdeling van die munisipaliteit het per e-pos aan die organiseerders ges\u00ea hulle ondersteun die inisiatief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Voor die aanloop van die eerste markdag het Chag met die plaaslike verkeersdienste, die brandweer en die Kaapse Wynland- omgewingsgesondheidspraktisyn vergader. Voorwaardes wat by die markdae gehandhaaf moet word, is brandblussers, water, sand, \u2019n noodhulpkissie, \u2019n verkeersbestuursplan en Covid-19-regulasies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In \u2019n e-pos-bewys het die munisipaliteit bevestig dat dit nie nodig is om \u2019n geleentheidsaansoek in te dien nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Daar word net van die organiseerders verwag om vooraf die munisipaliteit in kennis te stel wanneer die markdae sal plaasvind, en dat die naaste polisiekantoor in kennis gestel moet word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In reaksie op die bewerings s\u00ea Van der Hoeven: \u201cDis hartseer dat mense uit ons eie gemeenskap afbreuk wil doen aan ware gemeenskap- en ekonomiese bemagtiging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gerald Esau, die uitvoerende direkteur van gemeenskapsdienste in Drakenstein, het by navraag ges\u00ea: \u201cDie organiseerders van di\u00e9 mark het geen skriftelike toestemming van Drakenstein-munisipaliteit vir die gebruik van die openbare ruimte nie. Hulle het wel aansoek gedoen vir die vorige markdag en dit is gehanteer op die grondslag van \u2019n geselligheid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Esau voeg by: \u201cDaar was verlede week sprake van \u2019n nuwe markdag op die pas afgelope Saterdag, maar teen 24 Maart is geen aansoek ontvang nie. Indien die markdag voortgegaan het sonder toestemming, sou die munisipaliteit dit onwettig verklaar.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Die niewinsgewende organisasie Charleston Hill Action Group (Chag) het verlede jaar \u2019n Saterdagmark op die been gebring om di\u00e9 gemeenskap ekonomies te bemagtig n\u00e1 die slae van die 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