‘Extortionists are crippling small black businesses’, decries activists
The escalating issue of small businesses closing down due to extortion has become prevalent in South Africa. Civic movement, Save South Africa, says the criminals that demand 'protection fees' from small businesses are killing the township economy. The organisation says it cannot be business as usual when innocent people who are trying to feed their families are continuously targeted by criminals. Recently, several spaza shops and hair salons in Mamelodi, Pretoria had to […]