{"product_id":"9780624091592","title":"Native Merchants","description":"\u003cp\u003eDispossession of fertile, mineral-rich land is correctly repeated as the root cause of the economic precarity of Black people in South Africa. \u003cbr\u003eColonial wars are rightly foregrounded but in a way that frames black people as having existed outside of organised enterprise.\u003cbr\u003eThis book builds and adds dimension to the picture of black people's economic participation, taking the narrative from pre-colonial mining and spanning the colonial and apartheid periods, detailing tactics of economic exclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Phakamisa+Ndzamela\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003ePhakamisa Ndzamela\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Phakamisa Ndzamela","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379347505315,"sku":"9780624091592","price":350.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780624091592_6b58b8ae-75c9-4e78-aeb7-1c62aa89f977.jpg?v=1776481736","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9780624091592","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}