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Sabbir Alam of Bangladesh in his tuckshop in Meqheleng near the Ficksburg border post. (File photo: Thulani Mbele/Sowetan/Gallo images)

Transforming spaza shops from trouble into township titans

To safeguard their future, we must address regulatory gaps, ownership patterns and issues such as extortion

  • Des Erasmus
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