Document: Cross-border African shoppers and traders in Johannesburg

A small survey of 120 cross-border African shoppers and traders in the Johannesburg CBD and surrounds was conducted as a sub-component in the tourism sector study funded by the ComMark Trust. However, this survey probed not only the regulatory barriers and costs experienced by cross-border traders and shoppers but other problems as well that might constrain the expansion of their businesses. The Friedrich Naumann Foundation funded some supplementary research, as well as the publication of the results in SBP’s SME Alert series, Cross-border African shoppers and traders in South Africa: Findings from an SBP survey (January 2007), and the roundtable discussion.