Who could have imagined that the seemingly placid business of stationery could be so cutthroat?

Yet, the battle for shoppers has pitched CNA, a company that was created at the height of Joburg’s mining boom in 1896 to sell newspapers, against the upstart PNA, which opened its doors in 1992...

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