(Excerpt from the book ‘The Greek community in South Africa’)
In Transvaal, Greek shopkeepers and retailers faced the racist of the British. The Greek shops also experienced prosecutions in Cape Town. There were several incidents of anti-Greek behavior by the officials in relation to the granting of licences and certificates.
The financial survival of the shopkeepers made the wholesalers and wealthiest merchants angry. For that reason, in collaboration with the city authorities, they realised that new legislation had to be designed in order to keep these immigrants out of the colony. Even so, the columns of the South African Review openly "accused" Greeks of "monopolising" the small confectionery business and the fruit shops in the 1900s.
