Across a national landscape powered by over 500,000 dedicated street traders and 150,000+ spaza shops, the All Traders Business Forum (ATBF) NPC is established to mobilize, organize, and represent an initial pipeline of 15,000+ potential informal merchants, hawkers within Tshwane Metropolitan.
Dedicated Street Traders Nationwide
Providing everyday food security, affordable FMCG staples, and urban household livelihood across metropolitan transit nodes and commuter belts.
Spaza Shop Stores in South Africa
Forming the backbone of convenience distribution and neighborhood commerce in South Africa's townships, peri-urban zones, and settlements.
Target Potential Traders in Tshwane
Organizing micro-merchants into a compliant, digitized, and bankable collective voice based in the City of Tshwane, where ATBF is headquartered.
Informal commerce provides everyday food security, consumer affordability, and household livelihood for millions. Headquartered at the Baralak Building in Pretoria Central, ATBF is actively mobilizing an initial pipeline of 15,000+ potential traders across the City of Tshwane, establishing structured by-law compliance, digitized transaction histories, and clean urban retail corridors.
Primary bargaining and consultative body with municipalities on permits, demarcated bays, and trading by-laws.
Migrating merchants from vulnerable cash routines to auditable digital POS devices and verified records.
Unlocking member social security nets: medical aid schemes, education finance, funeral, and pension plans.
Building collective member-pooled funds to finance creditworthy micro-enterprises underserved by traditional banks.
Co-managing municipal trading corridors through our "Clean City" compacts, keeping sidewalks orderly and hygienic.
How ATBF transitions informal street trading into an auditable, investment-grade economic force.
Deploying mobile cashless payment systems and POS devices across potential member trading points via secure digital platforms.
Converting daily tabletop cash flow into verified balance sheets and trading history that unlock institutional capital.
Consolidating the massive projected purchasing power of 15,000+ Tshwane-based traders to negotiate factory-floor wholesale pricing directly.
See how switching from solitary retail procurement to ATBF’s projected 15,000+ Tshwane trader collective bulk buying power lowers your stock costs and builds creditworthiness.
Every ATBF program is engineered to create win-win outcomes for municipal authorities and micro-traders.
Digital administration of member savings, transactions, and group pools via secure regulated mobile infrastructure.
Auditable informal economy data; dramatic reduction in cash-in-transit street crimes; streamlined path for municipal permits.
Transparent digital transaction history; eliminates cash theft; creates credit records needed for business bank loans.
Traders and Block Leaders assume operational co-responsibility for precinct sanitation, waste sorting, and trading bay order.
Significantly reduces municipal refuse management costs; transforms congested sidewalks into hygienic, walkable retail hubs.
Stronger leverage for discounted municipal permit fees, secure bay allocations, and a clean environment that attracts buyers.
Mandatory training modules covering Stokvel Constitutions, Financial Literacy, Business Pricing, and Environmental Care.
Cultivates self-reliant, law-abiding micro-entrepreneurs; diminishes friction between hawkers, city police, and health inspectors.
Practical business skills: stock control, profit margins calculation, cash-flow budgeting, and conflict-free stokvel governance.
Affordable group schemes for Medical Aid, Educational Finance, Pension Planning, and Life/Funeral cover for informal families.
Strengthens urban community resilience; cushions informal households against economic shocks and welfare dependency.
Restores human dignity; provides essential emergency protection and family health security previously unavailable to street workers.
Ensuring transparency, bottom-up accountability, and rapid municipal liaison from street blocks to the Executive Board.
Directs overall organizational strategy, high-level municipal negotiations, fiduciary control, legislative advocacy, and inter-governmental relations.
Supervise specific municipal zones and commercial corridors, aligning trader distribution with municipal Local Economic Development (LED) policies.
Direct street-level management: ensuring trading bay order, bay demarcations, public walkway cleanliness, and real-time trader communications.
Independent internal dispute arbitration, grievance mediation, and strict enforcement of the ATBF Code of Conduct and community peace.
Informal trade is not a municipal nuisance to be policed; it is a vital engine of everyday local trade and household survival. ATBF offers local authorities a unified, organized, and compliant partner to bring order and economic sustainability to public retail spaces.
Operating alone leaves you vulnerable to unfair confiscations, predatory loan sharks, and financial insecurity. By joining the ATBF you protect your stall, lower your stock costs, and secure your family's future through capital pooling using a secure digital platform.
Head Office: Baralak Building, 269 Johannes Ramokhoase St, Pretoria Central, 0002