RunwaySale, a local online fashion that began in an apartment more than eight years ago, has received a R100m investment from Spear Capital, a global private equity firm.

This is the first “real investment” since its launch, says Karl Hammerschmidt, who started the company with his then girlfriend now wife, Elmien Hammerschmidt...

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