206pp., illus., paperback, Unisa Press, Pretoria, 2024

ISBN: 9781776151967

A collection of essays on the first entrepreneurs in Soweto, such as Thomas Ntlebi, Josiah Sibiya, Mweli Skota and later Connie Ntshona, Richard Maponya, Esther Nyembezi and Ephraim Tshabalala, and how they succeeded in their different sectors despite prohibitive apartheid-era legislation, contributing towards the economic livelihood of Soweto.

Contributors include Machete Eddie Rakabe, Phakamisa Ndzamela, Sam Motsuenyane and Andrew Khehla Lukhele.

Dr Thami Mazwai, a former PAC activist, journalist and editor, is a former director of the Centre for Small Business Development at the University of Johannesburg, a former resident executive at Wits Business School, and former Adjunct Professor at the University of Fort Hare and the University of the Western Cape.

chairs enterprise and supplier development company Mtiya Dynamics.

THE JOURNEY OF THE SOWETO ENTREPRENEUR SINCE 1905

: Mazwai (T.) ed.

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