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Exploring the resourceful spirit of Atteridgeville’s ingenious street vendors

High levels of unemployment push many, especially youth, into entrepreneurship. Creativity and resilience fuel unique businesses like kasi cuisine pop-ups, local fashion brands, and digital services, and retail and services hubs. Townships have thriving local markets where goods and services are exchanged daily. Township residents often prefer buying locally, creating a circular local economy.
Felix-Township economy A barber gives a customer a shave at a makeshift shop in Buhle Park in Johannesburg. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla)
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Obed Mthimkhulu offers sewing servics in Attridgeville Pretoria on 25 June 2025. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla)
Obed Mthimkhulu offers sewing services in Atteridgeville, Pretoria, on 25 June 2025. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla)
A barber trims a customer's beared on a makshift shop in Attridgeville Pretoria. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla)
A barber cuts a customer's hair at a makeshift shop in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla)
Thabang Lesufi sells tryes  along the road in Attridgeville Pretoria on 25 June 2025. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla)
Thabang Lesufi sells tyres along the road in Atteridgeville, Pretoria, on 25 June 2025. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla)
Welding services are offered on the streets in Attridgeville Pretoria on 25 June 2025. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla)
Welding services are offered on the streets in Atteridgeville, Pretoria, on 25 June 2025. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla)
Vendors prepare food near the Lucas Moripe stadium in Attridgeville Pretoria on 25 June 2025. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla)
Vendors prepare food near the Lucas Moripe Stadium. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla)
Vendors selling vegitables in Buhle Park Johannesburg. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla)
Vendors selling vegetables in Buhle Park, Johannesburg. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla)

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User Jul 3, 2025, 03:12 PM

Will be great to see more photo essays like this.