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As a collaboration between the Publishers Association of South Africa (PASA) and the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Cape Town Book Fair was launched in 2006 as an international book fair in Sub-Saharan Africa. The fair is now known as the South African Book Fair (SABF). The PASA decided to change the name in November 2013 ahead of the 2014 fair to ...
The South African Book Fair (previously known as the Cape Town Book Fair) is an international book fair in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is one of many similar events around the country . The fair started through a joint venture between the Publishers Association of South Africa (PASA) and the Frankfurt Book Fair . [ 1 ]
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By 1904 the company had stores across South Africa and continued to expand to meet demand for news during World War I. The company was floated on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1903 to raise £120,000 [3] (equivalent to £129,500,000 in 2017 based on its economic share). [4] By 1928 the company was publishing most of South Africa's newspapers.
The term market comes from the Latin mercatus ("market place"). The earliest recorded use of the term market in English is in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of 963, a work that was created during the reign of Alfred the Great (r. 871–899) and subsequently distributed, copied throughout English monasteries.
Spaza shop in Joe Slovo Park, Cape Town. Spaza shops, also known as tuck shops, originated in Apartheid-era South Africa when enterprising historically disadvantaged individuals were restricted from owning formal businesses, they began setting up informal, micro-convenience shops from their homes to serve their communities' daily needs in the townships.
Prior to that, authorised trade in rural products other than those produced in the same region depended on city travel, open-air markets and fairs. [10] A related type of store is the village store ( kyläkauppa ), typically located in sparsely populated towns, which still performs many similar functions to general stores.
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