Tag: Zwide

BEFORE FOREIGN SPAZA SHOPS TOOK OVER, BLACK SOUTH AFRICANS HAD ALREADY BUILT THIER OWN ECONOMIES

South Africa’s current debate about immigration, foreign-owned spaza shops, and collapsing township economies suffers from a serious problem: collective amnesia. A growing number of people speak as though black South Africans only entered commerce after democracy — or worse, as though township trade only became organised after foreign shop networks emerged across rural villages and […]