Throughout the country there are "trading centers".  Depending upon 

the population density trading centers may be five, ten, twenty or 

forty kilometers apart and may consist of a half dozen merchants or 

be small towns.  Each tends to provide the basic needs of the 

community.  This trading center in Ekwendeni is fairly good size.  

It includes tailors, typing school, nursery school, savings, 

credit and cooperative society, bottle store, grocery, pharmacy, 

water well project office, churches, restaurant, resthouses, bars, 

tire fitters, bike repair, post office, police, clinic, contractors, 

fertilizer and farm store, butchery, hair salon, bakery, bus 

station, and open market with fish, vegetables, cloth, fruit, 

plastics, music, pots, pans, cutlery, dishes, dry goods, hardware, 

lotions and notions, piles of bags of sugar, and bike parts.