South Africa has over 700,000 registered small businesses. In the townships these include hair salons, taverns, car repair shops, laundromats and others sometimes operating out of people’s homes.

The father of three runs a small motor repair shop in the township of Tsakane, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of South Africa’s biggest city of Johannesburg.His hopes for his business to ...

APTOPIX South Africa Township Mechanics 1 of 5 Themba Maseko, a 39-year-old mechanic, peeks through a window inside a workshop in Brakpan, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, April 30 ...