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The mystery of the missing one million entrepreneurs

This story has a bit of a complicated statistical start as the way self-employed or own account workers are counted has changed over the past ten years. But if you dig around a bit, you find that a million self-employed people have disappeared. The story starts in 2002 when Statistics South Africa published a survey analysing Non-VAT registered Businesses for 2001. This survey showed that there were 2.3 million unregistered businesses with an estimated turnover of less than R300 000. Around 1. ...