Abstract
South Africa’s successive post 1994 administration made concerted efforts to address the inequalities and the prevailing high level of unemployment that arose from the apartheid regime. One of the efforts was an approach aimed to promote the development of small businesses which suggests an understanding of the importance of SMEs to the economy as small businesses have been globally recognised as an important part of a solution to high levels of unemployment. However, existing literature illustrates that there are more closures of small businesses than formations in South Africa. This also applies to Nigerian immigrant businesses’ which are predominantly small businesses in Johannesburg CBD. However, there appears to be limited research which aims to ascertain the causes of these failures in Johannesburg CBD. Consequently, this research project seeks to examine the challenges faced by Nigerian immigrant small businesses’ in Johannesburg CBD...
M.Com. (Local Economic Development)