Author(s): Samson Nambei Asoba and Nteboheng Patricia Mefi
Craft-making has always been central to the African way of life and various forms of craft have been observed in many parts of Africa. Cape Town is a well-known destination for many immigrants who have adopted craft-making as a business and a form of employment. Most of these immigrants run survivalist and micro craft enterprises with very few of them having grown to reach the small to medium-sized business threshold. Even though numerous studies have attempted to explain immigrant entrepreneurship in general, few of them focussed on understanding the theories of immigrant entrepreneurship in the South African context. The present article was formulated to explore and explain theories of immigrant entrepreneurship in South Africa. The methodology involved a systematic review of literature, which aimed to identify the theories that best explained immigrant entrepreneurship in South Africa.