Abstract
The informal sector in South Africa plays a vital role in reducing the level of unemployment. Hillbrow, close to the Johannesburg Central Business District, inhabits many spaza shops due to the pressure and demand for job creation. This technical report investigates the success factors of running a spaza shop by immigrants in Hillbrow. The study focuses on the factors that sustain the success of the spaza shop in urban areas and the research methodology was used to explain the appropriate approach and data was collected from the African immigrant-business owners in Hillbrow with the help of questionnaires provided to them as voluntary participants. The proliferation of spaza shops in Hillbrow run by African immigrants is mainly due to unemployment. Some possess essential skills that they apply as business principles to run a spaza-type shop or small business as a source of survival or lucrative business...
M.Com. (Local Economic Development)