04/05/2026
We Could Easily Say That From Today Onwards We Only Buy From South African Owned Spaza Shops. But That Will Never Work Because The Main Thing That Drives South Africans To Foreign Owned Spaza Shops Is CREDIT. They Take Things On Credit. There’s A Pay Later System When Someone Becomes A Regular. This System Keeps South Africans (Especially Poor) Extremely Loyal & Dependent Because There Are Days Where Things Are Really Bad & They Don’t Have That R5. “My Friend” Is Able To Make An Exception. Meanwhile. South African Owned Spaza Shops Have No Such System. It’s Cash & Carry. Also, South African Owned Spaza Shops Are Notoriously More Expensive. Notoriously Under Stocked. You Go There & You Don’t Find What You Want. You Go There When Your Money Is Not Right & There Will Be No Exceptions. These Details, However Small. Actually Start To Compound. Hence Foreign Spaza Shops Are Preferred Over Local. South Africans Put More Money In Those Shops & They Are Unlikely To Stop Anytime Soon. 80% Of Spaza Shops Are Foreign Owned. This Is Not An Accident. It’s A Choice Made By Local Communities. They Support These People. If They Didn’t Support. Those Shops Wouldn’t Exist. Our Local Brothers Even Spend The Whole Day Camping In Those Containers. Smoking & Chiling. “My Friend” Allows This To Further Infiltrate The Community. Soon, They Become His Protectors.
