How the lockdown freed township entrepreneurs
Nov 29, 2020
3 minutes
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
EIGHTEEN months ago, Kopano Mofokeng began supplying cooking oil to street food vendors in South Africa’s biggest township, Soweto, guaranteeing delivery within the hour and offering stock on credit, before gradually expanding to products ranging from liver to chicken feet.
Then the Covid-19 outbreak hit and the country was shut down by the end of March. As the national economy tanked, Mofokeng feared the worst – that is, until he realised that government orders to stay indoors
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