Chinese migrants have changed the face of South Africa. Now they’re leaving. — Quartz
▻https://qz.com/940619/chinese-traders-changed-south-africa-now-theyre-leaving
▻https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/a-sign-at-the-entrance-of-china-city-johannesburg-e149312195
“What’s the point of working in South Africa where it is more dangerous and lonely when you could be making the same wage in China?” says Mingwei Huang, a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota, echoing sentiments expressed by traders during her research at the China malls.
An estimated half a million to more than 1 million Chinese live in Africa, many of them small-scale traders and entrepreneurs. Chinese traders in African countries from Botswana to Senegal are also struggling to make a profit in the once booming trade of importing cheap goods from China—a sign that the best days of an industry involving thousands of African and Chinese traders, agents, and middlemen across Africa and China might be over.