over three thousand stolz run mostly by immigrants make this market complex in downtown johannesburg a lucrative pan-african trading hub. shoppers come from all over the continent to find good deals. i come from i would come here to buy the gin. there is in a bar with a genius but he is a bit expensive be it the it is cheap that's why they come we had way they didn't. selling mostly chinese fashions out of the cupboard size shops an estimated seven hundred million euros in revenue is made here every year that's twice as much as in africa's largest shopping mall but shop owners like sickly mchale are facing many challenges she arrived from ethiopia ten years ago and sells clothing and bags. saif now. business used to be good because of the many customers coming from zimbabwe mozambique and other places the sickness what is it now because of police raids and other criminal activities our business is getting more quiet as if. at least once a week the shops are barricaded as police officers arrive to search for counterfeit goods and to weed out illegal immigrants or so they say. the bigg