Parable of Bethsheba, the fruit vendor kicked to the kerb in massive road 'clean-up'

A fruit vendor arranges seedless Oranges from South Africa that are currently in season. [Photo by Mose Sammy/Standard]

My favourite fruit vendor, Bethsheba, has been missing in action since kanjo folks rid our streets of hawkers. Her business premises, without any irony, were a wheelbarrow bedecked with succulent fruits.

She had a way of stacking up bright-coloured mangoes so that the setting sun flooded her wares to look even more enticing. Put simply, she turned a wheelbarrow, a simple hunk of metal, into a mobile, artistic installation that fed her family.