GG Alcock: The ANC Lost the Townships, South Africans Are Succeeding Anyway

Gabriel Makin talks to GG Alcock about the vast informal economy that exists in South Africa's townships.

Gabriel Makin

-1h 16m
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In this episode of Conversations with Gabriel Gabriel Makin talks to GG Alcock, one of South Africa's leading experts on the township economy. Alcock went from growing up in a mud hut in rural KwaZulu-Natal to building one of South Africa’s pioneering township marketing businesses. In this powerful conversation, he breaks down “Kasinomics”, the trillion-rand informal economy that StatsSA and government refuse to see properly.

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