On Monday and Tuesday I attended a Food Security workshop at Wits University. The intention of this workshop was to explore the issue of urban food security. In most cases when food security is mentioned people tend to think rural livelihoods and agriculture. This time we were looking at, inter alia, what people in Johannesburg eat, where and how do they prepare their food? Is this food nutritious? The bias was towards those people living in the margins of the mainstream economy,i.e., street vendors. The most interesting part of this workshop was a learning visit to Bree Street taxi rank. Before we went there, we were asked to say whatever assumptions we may have about the place. I assumed that the place will be dirty; that there will be so many people milling about; clutter of taxis, etc. Contrary to all of this, the place was clean, and well organized. It is not clear to me how the Bree Taxi rank is run, but it appears the place is co-owned by the City of JHB and taxi associations. ...