Under a banner calling for \"Freedom to Trade,\" an array of several hundred local street traders, rural farmers and the unemployed marched in the streets of Johannesburg Wednesday to present petitions to the city council and World Summit organizers.
Leon Louw, the march coordinator for the Informal Business Forum (known locally as the street traders or hawkers), explained that Johannesburg city leaders decided to oust the street traders from Sandton prior to the beginning of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, explaining they might constitute a security risk to the attendees. But for Louw it\'s a clear example of \"the white elite opposed to African-style trading,\" he told United Press International.
