Boost: Scores of waste pickers, a group of people who make a living by collecting recyclable material, recently met to plot ways to formalise their business. They also got a much-needed boost with shipping containers to keep their material and have been asked to work in their respective areas to promote unity and peace.
Today, Tat’Babini is no longer behind the till of his shop. In most spazas in town, a foreign national does a bustling trade. Probably stirred by a spate of xenophobic violence, the minister demanded: “Foreigners need to understand that they are here as a courtesy and our priority is the people of this country. They cannot barricade themselves in and not share their practices with local business owners.”
As economist Edwin Arrison put it during an interview on Power Breakfast recently: “The kinds of jobs that I think are often imagined up in these forums are jobs where people stand along the road waving red flags for the whole day.”
give me a break. how are buying in bulk from makro, haggling over prices from direct suppliers, and picking good loss leaders 'snatching like candy from a baby' ... how about pointing some of this towards bantu education, which messes with maths edu in southafrica to this day?
You will have a long wait if you expect the government to expel the illegals
Wake up and buy in bulk and start a price war with the illegal foreigners
Let's be fair. Our local spaza owners are a little disorganised ( lack bulk buying power). Gov failled to structurally support and maintain. Ask the SAB how they did it. Our kasi pubs A1 in support.
Lazy shit... A guy comes from Somali and takes over your backyard...
The spaza industry is not dead, but it must be wrestled back by those that are in it by hook or by crook.
And if they were real entrepreneurs rather than just perpetual victims they would learn from the foreigners and use their techniques. Pool resources, use your family networks, sacrifice luxuries, and WORK HARD! Local blacks only want... and they want 'success' and 'wealth' now!
Govt intervention is necessary.
An entrepreneur is someone that makes something out of nothing .. not someone waiting for a handout
Someone has to explain why South Africans cannot compete with foreigners?
JNkotini We are told they are investing
Our only hope is to fight and chase all foreigners out of SA.
The only thing is to reclaim what is rightfully South African and never wait for politicians especially the WMC and illigal immigrants sympathetic ANC. Blacks of this country must wake up if we want to survive and build a better country for generations to come.
15 million illegal immigrants(Junk BB-) 👀🤯
Left on your own by the MYANC ..
The difference is the foreigner will sell his bakkie to buy stock for his customers and look after his family the South African buys a double cab or BMW instead of stock employs his own family who he doesn't pay but wonders why what little stock he had goes missing..
Just because you call yourself an entrepreneur does not make you 1 .. if an foreigner can do it why can't you ... if you complain about the foreigner axk who allowed them in the 1st place ...
Politicians? Or ANC politicians?
With revelations in the state capture you will notice where the is money, you will find hyenas
It's a good learning curve
Maybe you just aren't good at business if foreigners with no contacts or specific benefits can just come over here and outdo you.
You will be the first ones to write how xenophobic SAfricans are when we try to kick them out.
We only vote for ppl tht allow these things to happen
Even when you own a spaza will your own people buy from you NO they will jump you go buy from Shoprite and come ask you for skoloto
Who stops South Africans opening spaza shops?
Spaza industry has been destroyed by the likes of CyrilRamaphosa and the EFFSouthAfrica who allow and make happen wholesale looting for the shops every time there is a supposed service delivery protest
It begs the question; Why are South Africans so useless at running a spaza shop?
Are out people not partly to blame? Who rents out premises for the shops?
South Africans you are on your own. This Gorvmnt won't help you with anything unless it benefits them directly or they can use it to loot treasury.
And corporate taking space too
This is true, but fools in government still allow more foreign nationals to flood our informal market MYANC David_Makhura, yiu guys need to wake up!!
It is not government problem.... People must go to school to earn much about business and its competitions.
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