Bruce Philips is a lecture in business policy and helene brice is a senior lecture in marketing in the department of Business Science at the University of Cape Town South africa. Black business in south afrrica represetns a paradox-it forms a small minority group in the overall business structure of South African society yet it is required to serve the interest of the majority of the peple of that society. The authors have drawn on the experiences of black business ment in one of the major metropolitian centres of the country, the Cape Town region, in ordder to comment on a wide range of factors influening the balck business community. The paper obsrves the structure of that sector, discusses its dynamism and propsects, including the problems that best black business in general in the south african context.
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