As South Africans struggle to put food on the table during lockdown, mashonisas fill a crucial gap
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As South Africans struggle to put food on the table during lockdown, mashonisas fill a crucial gap.
‘Business has been booming since this lockdown. People have expenses, but they don’t have money. That’s where I come in.”
These are the sentiments of B Dlamini (as he likes to be known), a 70-year-old unregistered credit provider – commonly referred to as a loan shark – from Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal.
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