Joburg welcomes court ruling on informal trading in the inner city [SOUND]

# The City of Johannesburg has welcomed the recent court ruling reaffirming its position on regulating informal trading in the inner city. Traders took the metro to court for allegedly arbitrarily evicting them at the beginning of October. The High Court in Johannesburg has ordered the metro to verify, register and allocate spaces to qualifying inner-city traders within two weeks. The metro’s spokesperson, Nthatisi Modingoane, says the court has highlighted the necessity of establishing a structured and compliant framework for informal traders: