Morero: City capacity insufficient for thousands of informal traders

By Akani Nkuna

The City of Johannesburg mayor, Dada Morero, has warned that the city lacks the capacity to allocate stalls and issue trading permits to all informal traders, saying that there is going to be a shortfall and private land might need to utilise to accommodate the surging numbers of applicants.

“At current, we are seating at about 208 stalls, which in essence means we do not have sufficient space. We are still looking at other areas if we can still continue to allocate, but it is also import to note that we may not have the capacity to allocate throughout the CoJ,” he said.

“There will be a shortfall. We do have a long-term strategy there are already areas which are privately owned, which we want to acquire as the city and convert into trading markets. Yes, we are going to have a challenge; therefore, we have to