Twenty‐five years after democratic transition, the political liberation of Black South Africans has yet to translate into socioeconomic transformation. As protesters highlight the nation's failed economic transformation, a group of residents in Khayelitsha—Cape Town's largest township—are attempting to bring about economic transformation by becoming entrepreneurs. While informal entrepreneurship has been a mainstay of South African townships for decades, in this article, I examine the motivations of this new generation of Khayelitsha entrepreneurs, who are starting formal businesses with the goal of gaining a foothold in the power center of South Africa's economy. I demonstrate that while many scholars view entrepreneurship as a symptom of neoliberal ideology, Khayelitsha entrepreneurs view entrepreneurship in less individualistic and more communally oriented ways: as a path to establish greater wealth and opportunity for future generations of Black South Africans. I argue that these understandings of entrepreneurship are indicative of alternative economic imaginations that could have the potential to dislodge dominant capitalist ideas of economy.

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企业家精神是传承的建筑：重新构想种族隔离后的南非经济

民主过渡后的25年，黑人黑人的政治解放尚未转化为社会经济转型。当抗议者强调该国经济转型失败时，开普敦最大的乡镇Khayelitsha的一群居民正试图通过成为企业家来实现经济转型。尽管数十年来非正式企业家精神一直是南非乡镇的支柱，但在本文中，我研究了新一代Khayelitsha企业家的动机，他们正在开始正式业务，目的是在南非经济的力量中心立足。我证明，尽管许多学者将企业家精神视为新自由主义意识形态的一种症状，Khayelitsha企业家将企业家精神视为较少个人主义和更加以社区为导向的方式：这是为后代黑人南非人建立更多财富和机会的途径。我认为，对企业家精神的这些理解表明了另类的经济想象力，这些想象力可能会取代资本主义占主导地位的经济观念。