NEW RULES FOR TANZANIAN TRADERS !

New rules for Tanzanian traders
By Vicky Ntetema BBC News, Dar es Salaam

The stalls in Kigogo market are still under construction. Thousands of Tanzanian market traders are up in arms after being moved away from the centre of the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam.
More than 40,000 traders have been relocated to the city's remote Kigogo area. They say they now have to pay taxes before they can ply their wares.
The government insists the hawkers will not be taxed, but admits the new market is not completely ready.
The place is empty, there is no power and the stalls are still being built.
The latest crackdown comes after a clean up campaign in March was suspended following clashes with police.
Local authorities and vendors were given six months to prepare for a more orderly relocation to the suburbs.
But it seems the vendors are still not satisfied.
'Remote suburbia'
The government is planning to register all petty traders - a move which has made the hawkers suspicious of the state's intentions.
"We are not going to pay taxes," the traders angrily shouted.

The traders were forced to leave the city's lucrative commercial centre
"Where will we get the money from?" one of them asked.
"All of us are poor, petty traders. The government has moved us from the city centre to this remote suburb where there are no customers," the same trader complained.
But the government insists that the traders have been occupying space in the city centre illegally - preventing the installation of sewage and clean water pipes and reducing traffic in the busy area to a single lane.
Vendors and touts have been blamed for a rise in petty crime.
"What we want to do is to assist these people, facilitate them to get into real business," Dar es Salaam's regional commissioner Abbas Kandoro explained.
"We want them to become middle businessmen and then graduate to being big businessmen," he said.
He promised the state would help by providing them with education.
Cleaning up
The government also believes business will pick up.
"Once those hawkers go there, get settled with their products then naturally people will flock into those places to get their supplies," Mr Kandoro insisted.

The hawkers are deeply unhappy about the relocation
However, power lines have yet to be erected and, although there are toilet facilities, these cannot be used at the moment.
There are severe water shortages in Dar es Salaam, due to major repairs on the main pipe which supplies water to four million residents in the commercial capital.
There has also been continued unrest as some street vendors have refused to give up their positions in the commercial area.
In March, two people were killed in violent clashes between police and street vendors in the northern town of Mwanza.
Many people were also injured in rioting in Dar es Salaam which began after police and security guards confiscated vendors' wares and destroyed kiosks in the capital.
The operation was part of a crackdown on street vendors and bus ticket touts.
The government originally envisaged completing the clean-up within three months but conceded that more time was needed.

BBC NEWS REPORT.