The survival of foreign nationals' small businesses in Johannesburg
- Authors: Mukoswa, Muntala Candice
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Small business - Economic aspects , Minority business enterprises , Small business - Economic aspects - South Africa , Immigrants - Economic aspects , Immigrants - South Africa - Johannesburg
- Language: English
- Type: Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/452102 , uj:39865
- Description: Abstract: The frustration experienced by immigrants attempting to integrate into a host society forces many foreigners into small businesses. Foreign nationals’ small businesses have emerged as attempts by some foreigners to be exonerated from the accusation that foreigners contribute to economic woes of South Africans by increasing the unemployment rate, “taking our jobs”, putting pressure on scarce resources and providing cheap, low-skilled labour. As a result, an increasing number of foreign-owned small businesses in South Africa operate in difficult business terrain, compounded by socio-political and economic problems. An investigation of the survival of foreign nationals’ small businesses is therefore imperative, especially in the Johannesburg Central Business District, since Johannesburg is the economic hub of Gauteng and of South Africa as a whole... , M.Com. (Business Management)
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Challenges facing Nigerian-immigrant business owners in Johannesburg Central Business District (CBD)
- Authors: Mbakwe, Uchechukwu Solomon
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Foreign workers, Nigerian - South Africa - Johannesburg , Minority business enterprises - South Africa - Johannesburg , Small business - South Africa - Johannesburg , Immigrants - South Africa - Johannesburg
- Language: English
- Type: Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/474804 , uj:42809
- Description: 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)
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(IM)MIGRANT CITY re-imagining the toxic experience of migrants on Kerk Street, Johannesburg
- Authors: Masilela, Tsaukani Ellan
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: Architecture and society - South Africa - Johannesburg , Immigrants - South Africa - Johannesburg , Immigrants - South Africa - Social conditions , Xenophobia - South Africa - Johannesburg
- Language: English
- Type: Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/496653 , uj:45282
- Description: Abstract: South Africa attracts migrants because of its reputation as a free, democratic, and developing country. South Africa has long been considered a hub of employment for migrant workers lured by the diamond and gold industries. As attractive as South Africa appears it carries the veil of a superiority complex and the culture of violence targeted at black immigrants. This culture of violence can be argued is due to South Africa’s violent and inhumane apartheid history which brewed intolerance amongst people of different ethnic backgrounds. This Major Design Project reveals the toxic experiences of migrants in Johannesburg, adding to the existing spatial dialogue around the toxic relationship between South Africans and migrants. I look at toxicity from the definition used in “Toxic Landscapes” by Haeden Stewart (2017) who is a professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts. Toxicity in this proposal focuses on the ways shared materials, interests, and harms that ‘objectively’ bind communities and how these community ties are identified and become meaningful as these materials, harms, and interests become visible (Stewart: 2017). This proposal highlights that as a migrant, whether you come into South Africa legally or illegally, you will experience xenophobia in some form. The project acknowledges that some migrants are protected by class from the experiences poorer migrants might experience. Your class and social standing subjects you to the advantages and disadvantages you might face as a migrant in South Africa. This emphasizes that there is an issue of migrants experiencing indignity in South William Edward Burghardt Du Bois is an American sociologist who in ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ (1903) writes about racial injustice in America faced by African Americans. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois coined the phrase “double consciousness”, described as the internal conflict experienced by a person or group of people. This theory was initially described through the experience of African Americans (Dubois:2008). Where African Americans seem to be frequently looking at themselves through the lens of white racist society. Double consciousness sets a framework for understanding the position of oppression in an oppressive world (Dubois: 2008). This theory of double consciousness is important because, in South Africa, we have a different geographic and historical context however we relate to the concept of double consciousness because we share similar experiences. In America, black people were inferior to white people. In South Africa during apartheid, black people were inferior to white people. Apartheid was characterized by an authoritarian political culture based on supremacy. In the mines, mine owners would get labourers from other surrounding areas and countries to work for lesser wages. The migrant labour system was a historical system used to reconcile the conflicting need for cheap labour in the mines and cities, with the apartheid ideology that workers should not reside there permanently... , M.Tech. (Architecture)
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Exploring the experiences of undocumented Zimbabwean women migrants who reside in Johannesburg
- Authors: Gininda, Muriel Felicity
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Immigrants - South Africa - Johannesburg , Women immigrants - South Africa - Johannesburg
- Language: English
- Type: Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/477675 , uj:43168
- Description: Abstract: Historically, migration was viewed as a male phenomenon; however, women have become active migrants in their own right. In the South African context, there is empirical evidence that many of these migrant women remain undocumented upon entering South Africa... , M.A. (Social Impact Assessment)
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