Browsing by Author "Petersen, Leif"
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Enforced informalisation: the case of liquor retailers in South Africa
Charman, Andrew; Petersen, Leif; Piper, Laurence (Taylor & Francis, 2013)After a decade of unsuccessful efforts to migrate informal businesses to South Africa’s formal economy there remains little understanding of the dynamics in this sector, especially as regards micro-enterprises. International ... -
From local survivalism to foreign entrepreneurship: the transformation of the spaza sector in Delft, Cape Town
Charman, Andrew; Petersen, Leif; Piper, Laurence (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2012)Small, home-based grocery stores, known as spaza shops, are ubiquitous throughout the township areas of urban South Africa, constituting an important business in the informal economy. In recent years, this retail market ... -
Implementing value chain analysis to investigate drivers and sustainability of Cape Town's informal economy of wild-harvested traditional medicine
Petersen, Leif; Moll, Eugene John; Hockings, M.T. (Routledge, 2015)Despite a highly visible presence, policy-maker knowledge of the drivers and participants in the informal economy of wild-harvested medicinal plants in Cape Town remains limited. To illuminate the workings of this local ... -
Informality disallowed: State restrictions on informal traders and micro-enterprises in Browns farm, Cape Town, South Africa
Piper, Laurence; Charman, Andrew; Petersen, Leif (Pan-African University Press, 2019)This chapter examines the impact of regulations and law enforcement on the economic activities of informal traders and micro-entrepreneurs in marginalised communities on the urban periphery. Our case site is Browns Farm, ... -
Perspectives of wild medicine harvesters from Cape Town, South Africa
Petersen, Leif; Reid, Andrew M.; Moll, Eugene J.; Hockings, Marc T. (Academy of Science of South Africa and AOSIS, 2017)Cape Town is a fast-growing cityscape in the Cape Floristic Region in South Africa with 24 formally protected conservation areas including the World Heritage Table Mountain National Park. These sites have been protected ... -
The role of family in the township informal economy of food and drink in KwaMashu, South Africa
Petersen, Leif; Charman, Andrew (Emerald, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to provide a qualitative investigation of family employment dynamics in the KwaMashu township economy. Using a small area census research method, the researchers identified 1,556 businesses ... -
Submission for consideration in developing a supportive regulatory environment for the growth and trade in medicinal and recreational marijuana in South Africa
Petersen, Leif; Gaylard, Matthew (PLAAS, 2019-11-12)Since 2017, three separate events have influenced the legality of cannabis in South Africa. Firstly, a licensing framework was introduced for the domestic cultivation and manufacture of medicinal cannabis by the Department ... -
What price cheap goods? Survivalists, informalists and competition in the township retail grocery trade
Petersen, Leif; Thorogood, Camilla; Charman, Andrew; Du Toit, Andries (PLAAS, 2019-08-31)About 54% of South Africa’s township microenterprises trade in food or drink. More than two-thirds of these are grocery retail businesses in the form of spaza shops and smaller ‘house shops’. These are the predominant ...