A South African woman used social grants to make R18,000 per month tax-free

• A woman in Khayelitsha nets R18,000 per month, tax-free, after ten years of investment.
• The R30 billion-a-year backroom rental economy is largely cash-based and overlooked by the government and formal economy players.
• The informal economy expert believes formal players fail to grasp the scale of the backroom rental economy, seeing it only as a small-scale activity.