While throngs of media set up satellite vans and camera equipment, red T-shirt clad members toyi-toyied up and down Simmonds street – some of them holding vuvuzelas and others knobkerries. One woman had even brought her guitar along for the march.
Supporters held placards reading: "Phantsi registrar of medical schemes phants" and "you must serve the people, not profits".
Another said: "I gave up beer because of labour brokers."
Hawkers were also capitalising on the event, selling fruit, cigarettes, chips and chocolates.
Maroza Hogana, a salesman who works at Telkom, arrived at the march in a suit and held a poster which read:" Middle class overtaxed. Life unaffordable."
"I have a meeting at 11am but I have to be here to support," he told Sapa.
He said he supported the banning of labour brokers and e-tolling.
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