Des Erasmus
The City of Johannesburg will return to the South Gauteng High Court on Monday to oppose an attempt by the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) to halt the removal of informal traders working without permits, from the metro.
The matter was supposed to be heard on Friday, with SERI representing about 500 members of the informal traders forum, but negotiations over the relocation of traders failed, and the matter was postponed.
In his “Mayor’s Weekly Update”, published on Sunday, executive mayor Dada Morero was cast as a compassionate politician who was returning to the court “not to fight people, but to defend the city’s right to safety, dignity and order for all”.
In the update, Morero said the city would continue enforcing by-laws. “We won’t allow anybody to trade on the road illegally or anywhere else, unless in [designated] places”.
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