SA needs informal sector
Street traders and micro businesses are creating jobs and wealth
Ask anyone who has lived in Johannesburg for at least a decade and has been adventurous enough to venture into the CBD and they will tell you just how much the commercial activity landscape in the city has changed.
Gone are the big department-store chains and hirepurchase furniture showrooms...
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