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A suggestion on how to spend R500 million in the kasi
Posted by Admin (JS) on 17 September 2026, 13:20 SAST
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BY JANICE SCHECKTER, FOUNDER AND CEO, KASIKONNECT
Giving a spaza shop a cash grant to restock is an exercise in futility. It doesn't build the township economy; it simply subsidizes its exit. That money stays in the Kasi for all of two hours before leaking straight back to external FMCG corporate giants.
If we want a real return on this R500 million investment, we must dig past the physical symptoms and fix the foundational crises: the asymmetry of buying power, ecosystem isolation, and a total data deficit.
