“…Commercial banks were reluctant to lend money to small scale business as they lacked business skills, had high cost risk and that small business emphasized on short term survival issues while banks were for long-term competitiveness (Gwebu, 2005;Pansiri and Temtime 2005). Botswana government and the private sector have been assisting micro enterprises but not paying much attention on the component of training small business owners on how to manage their businesses for long term survival in the market (Gobagoba and Littrell, 2003;BIDPA and CEDA, 2007. In developing countries urban planners formulate policies to control the operation of the informal sector activities particularly street vending (Palmer, 2007) but some of these policies are not friendly to street vendors (Palmer, 2007;Joseph, 2011). For instance, they carry out frequent inspection and do demolitions, confiscation of goods and sometimes remove some street vendors from where they operate (Joseph, 2011).…”