Fruit & Veg

Street-level fruit and vegetable vendors are the backbone of food access in Cape Town's neighbourhoods where not everyone drives to a shopping mall. Fruit & Veg operates in that community role—the place where a pensioner picks up spinach on foot, where a parent grabs an avocado between taxi stops, where local workers buy lunch. These vendors anchor their neighbourhoods, provide affordable fresh produce without the overhead of retail rent, and often employ people from the same area. They matter because they keep fresh food available in zones underserved by supermarket chains, they hire locally, and they're the social hub where neighbours cross paths during errands. Without these spots, certain suburbs would have very different access to basic nutrition.