After almost ten years of painstaking research, seasoned business journalist Phakamisa Ndzamela has emerged with a deeply expansive, passionate and well-researched history on the rise, fall and resilience of Black traders in South Africa. Native Merchants - The Building of the Black Business Class in South Africa captures various historical epochs of Black lives going back to the fifth century AD in which an agro-pastoral society of natives mined iron ore and copper. Ndzamela shows that trade in areas such as Levubu in Makhado, in Limpopo, saw successful mining ventures by the VhaVenda that yielded quality ore at the renowned Iron Mountains of Tshimbupfe. There was also mining in other parts of South Africa long before Europeans arrived, albeit with differing and complex degrees of success. Native Merchants shows the entanglements of race and politics in the shaping and destruction of Black entrepreneurship, especially after South Africa officially became an apartheid state in 1948.
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Phakamisa Ndzamela | Native Merchants - The Building of the Black Business Class in South Africa
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