Hotly contested township markets
talk of large formal retailers being allowed by government to spread their tentacles into the spaza shop market is splitting the black business community down the middle.
Two diametrically opposed views on the thorny subject are beginning to emerge, with one camp supporting a tentative push by white-owned retailers into the spaza shop market and another camp arguing for retailers to be stopped in their tracks before they gobble up the lucrative market straddling South Africa’s townships and rural towns.
The issue came under discussion recently at
