CoJ launches digital system to regulate informal trading in inner city

By Akani Nkuna

City of Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero on Monday launched a digital system to regulate informal trading in the inner-city.

The system will designate stands to legally fit traders, according to the city, to ensure they uphold and adhere to by-laws.

The invitation of new trading applicants would be based on “available space and policy provisions,” Morero said.

The digital system will “issue a card with a QR code so when we do out rounds we can verify whether a trader is legal in that space or not”.

Morero was addressing the media at the Joburg Theatre during the launch. He said the digital system was one of several initiatives undertaken by the city to restore order, cleanliness and economic vibrancy to the inner-city.

Earlier this month, the city and the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) conducted an enforcement operation in the De Villiers precinct, targeting traders operating