Itumeleng Mothibeli’s first experience in retail was during school holidays selling sheepskin slippers at the Grahamstown Arts Festival.   

“My paternal grandparents ran a spaza shop in the Free State, so retail was very much part of our family culture,’’ he says. His parents are more academic: one is a lecturer in microbiology, the other a teacher...

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