Focus on rural poverty in the developing world has underplayed the existence of urban poverty, which, in some cases, is becoming more accute than rural poverty. So far, rural-urban migration has not triggered investigations into its effect on the urban areas. This paper aims to redress this issue, using as a case study Old Naledi, a slum of Gaborone, Botswana's capital city. Its scope is the small scale traders. The paper contends that in order for poverty to be eliminated, a poverty profile of the poor communities needs to be given. This enables systematic development planning of the community by the authorities. To that end, the paper presents and analyses the socio-economic data of the small scale traders in Old Naledi. The paper highlights a few main findings. It is mainly the women that do the trading in Old Naledi. Most of them are small scale traders who are part time entrepreneurs in that they have a regular job which pays them very little. Two things undermine small scale trade in Old Naledi. These are the City Council regulations which demand that these traders have trading licences, and the large scale traders who trade in Old Naledi but live outside the township.
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