SA Market - the modern playground of pirates
If you walk around streets in the central Joburg city and other busy CBD areas around the country, you'll be amazed to see how street vendors and hawkers are used in selling faked merchandise and products by pirates.
Truworth and Nike have fallen victims of the scam in the clothing industry. As consumers of these brands how can we combat this irregularity? Is it because of our silent government economic regulatory policies and free trading policies that are so relaxed? Is it because there is no clear defined policies on illegal copywriting and branding?
Is it because of the democratic era within which we're living that propagates small medium enterprises and "vuk'senzele" business enterprises?