EFFORTPOST The Safrican calls out the Paki, Chink and the North African Cellphone kiosk

"I recently visited Menlyn Park mall in Pretoria specifically for the weFix store. While waiting I did some browsing and noticed the sheer number of cellphone shops. It's like they're built from a kit that includes: a selection of ugly phone cases, garbage Bluetooth speakers, fluorescent lighting, and a South Asian shopkeeper who stands outside the shop. In one aisle there were three of these shops: two next to each other and one opposite them -- all with the shopkeepers standing outside by the doors.

There are at least two cellphone shops in Cresta and that's not counting the stalls in the middle of aisles.

The thing is, I never see customers in these shops. How can they afford to rent space in malls like Cresta and Menlyn with barely anybody going in to buy a cheap phone case? Or is rent in a mall really that low and people actually do buy a lot of phone accessories?"

This is a common sight you guys will be able to see in any Safrican mall big enough, filled with chinese crap and useless electronic devices like chargers and adaptors and stuff which ironically aren't cheap for knock-off bullshit brands and instead just feels like the Chink or paki are already stealing your shit out of your pocket, just for you being foolish enough to have crossed the Threshold of the store or kiosk.

You can make a mental note of the inventory, come back two years and fricking see the exact same merchandise inplace on the same spot. So the frickers are never moving any real volume of inventory for sale, so how the frick they are making a living remains a mystery?

The only reason you would be r-slurred enough to enter their shops is to emergency buy an adaptor or charger for you phone which died, and the official Vodacom or MTN shop is closed or half a city away- and even then you'd be wise enough to expect that shit to fail within the next 6 months.

I make a distinction between pakis and Indians here in SA, because ironically enough in SA indians tend to be Lower to middle class, even the muslim ones, and tend to hold well regarded stores, like fabric factories or factory cutlery stores, and they import their stuff directly from India. Indian spice merchants are very VERY popular as Bongs and Boers use that shit in their Braais

Point is Indians tend to be the favorable ethnicity to do business with, in the corporate world, because they have the association and steriotype of serious businessmen in the country, whereas Pakis and Chinamen have all of the negative associations of scamartists and swindlers.

These are of course vast generalizations, and dont apply to everyone.

But these paki/chinamen shops are regarded as shitbox labs or money laundering operations, as fricking nobody knows how in God's earth they make money?? The only Chinamen shops most people really trust is sushi shops!

today even the redditors are calling out the dodgy bastards

"Funny the layman on the street is able to identify businesses that have no business but SARS and law enforcement can't. Unless..."

ONLY MAYOS GET TAXED B-WORD

lots of conspiracy theories!

DRAMATARDS! Do you has these freaks in ur country?!