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By: Gavin Chait on 04 May 2007

Watch this space, we're actually busy with a survey in both Johannesburg and Cape Town on precisely these issues. 
 
Previous experience is that there is no line between car guarding and trading. What seems to happen is that people become car guards, save up to purchase stock, and then start trading. A group of Kenyans I met in Cape Town had done so well out of trading that they bought a small building and turned it into a budget hotel for migrants. Clearly it doesn't happen for everyone, but it is an important example of what is possible. 
 
We should be complete on the survey by end-May and the results will be posted here.

 

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