Mind your own business, minister

Extensive research by several organisations on how foreign-owned spaza shops are run provides a great deal of insight, although I’ll admit the picture is not always complete and, at times, contradictory. The nonprofit organisation Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation is...

The majority, a ‘mass of opportunity’

South Africa’s largest market is its most misunderstood market. It’s a market that has been largely ignored, one dubbed ‘the same as any other’. But that is untrue. In fact, the market is a “mass of opportunity”. Professor John Simpson, unleashing the UCT’s Unilever...