1. INRODUCTION
Spaza shops are regularly referred to as examples of small scale entrepreneurial endeavor and accomplishment inside the informal economy of South African townships. The expression "spaza" is taken from the isiZulu dialect, signifying "shrouded" (Bear et al., 2005), and rose in the politically-sanctioned racial segregation time when business open doors for black business visionaries were confined. These micro-convenience stores traded in a clandestine manner to provide township residents with local access to everyday goods otherwise only available at distant supermarkets.
The larger part of spaza shops are unregistered, informal business and generally don't hold fast to the city rules for leading business in neighborhoods. Before, …show more content…
Various studies have explored the endeavor qualities of spaza shops (Cant and van Scheers, 2007; Chebelyon-Dalizu et al., 2010; Ligthelm, 2005; Perry, 1989). Their success depended on three variables: to begin with, the part of the more distant family in giving start-up capital and work; second, the business area, physically working from rooms of private families and spatially arranged near individuals' homes; and, third, the informal rules that permitted each spaza a small share of the market on roughly equal …show more content…
According to Ligthelm (2005:202) the business practices of spaza shops involve normal retailing; that is, obtaining purchaser products from manufacturers, wholesalers, different retailers and private people and offering the merchandise to customers. For a considerable length of time spaza shops have assumed a critical part as retailers of family basic supply items in township groups. They are additionally incubators of business enterprise, providing business foundations for generations of South African families whilst bringing additional income to households (Liedeman, Charman, Piper, and Petersen 2013:
Spaza shops are regularly referred to as examples of small scale entrepreneurial endeavor and accomplishment inside the informal economy of South African townships. The expression "spaza" is taken from the isiZulu dialect, signifying "shrouded" (Bear et al., 2005), and rose in the politically-sanctioned racial segregation time when business open doors for black business visionaries were confined. These micro-convenience stores traded in a clandestine manner to provide township residents with local access to everyday goods otherwise only available at distant supermarkets.
The larger part of spaza shops are unregistered, informal business and generally don't hold fast to the city rules for leading business in neighborhoods. Before, …show more content…
Various studies have explored the endeavor qualities of spaza shops (Cant and van Scheers, 2007; Chebelyon-Dalizu et al., 2010; Ligthelm, 2005; Perry, 1989). Their success depended on three variables: to begin with, the part of the more distant family in giving start-up capital and work; second, the business area, physically working from rooms of private families and spatially arranged near individuals' homes; and, third, the informal rules that permitted each spaza a small share of the market on roughly equal …show more content…
According to Ligthelm (2005:202) the business practices of spaza shops involve normal retailing; that is, obtaining purchaser products from manufacturers, wholesalers, different retailers and private people and offering the merchandise to customers. For a considerable length of time spaza shops have assumed a critical part as retailers of family basic supply items in township groups. They are additionally incubators of business enterprise, providing business foundations for generations of South African families whilst bringing additional income to households (Liedeman, Charman, Piper, and Petersen 2013: