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/ 25 March 2005

The cancer of the malls

Descending into the underground shopping mall known as the Galleria in Rosebank, one leaves one of Johannesburg’s more opulent shopping areas for blank windows and papered-over shop fronts. What keeps a shop going for over a century, when all around, others are closing? Passion, says a small Johannesburg retailer, and specialisation.