The legendary "Avon ladies", who made a living going door-to-door marketing their products, might hold the key to South Africa's crippling unemployment crises, according to a former Nelson Mandela Bay academic. Brand management researcher and Cape Peninsula University of Technology marketing lecturer and former lecturer at NMMU Pieter Steenkamp, says that to alleviate the high unemployment rate, business models - such as the network marketing model used by Avon - need to better cater for the … [Read more...] about Could this be the solution to SA’s crippling unemployment?

