With the negative news around the retail sector and job cuts, one may assume that things are not looking too good for business in general. Analysists are not helping either as they give negative projections. Stats SA on the other hand shows that retail trade sales increased by 3.1% in November 2019 compared with October 2019. How is the retail sector riding the wave and making it under the tough economic climate?

GUEST: Dov Girnun, the CEO of Merchant Capital, an alternative fintech funder that assists more than 7,000 small and medium sized retail businesses in South Africa