BLACK PIONEERS, the untold stories of African merchants

109pp., 4to., illus., hardback, Rockhopper Books, Cape Town, 2024

ISBN: 9780796151599

Profiles on a selection of largely unknown black traders active in apartheid South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s, including Constance Ntshona, Sally Motlana, Epainette Mbeki, SJJ Lesolang, Richard Maponya, AN Gadi, HM Pitje and Sam Motsuenyane.

Former business journalist Phakamisa Ndzamela is the author of Native Merchants: The building of a black business class.