Oriental Plaza | 38 Lilian Ngoyi St, Fordsburg, Johannesburg, 2092, Gauteng

Just shopping at the Oriental Plaza is a countless experience itself for this is a sole shopping mall nestled on the outskirts of Johannesburg CBD However the story of how the mall was recognized is not only motivating but challenging for it was not a stroll in the park for the founding fathers of the Plaza Curved up by the security forces during the apartheid epoch the Indian traders of the day were driven out of Page views 14th street to where Oriental Plaza is located currently and they had to regroup in order to re ndear themselves to their faithful customers The plaza was established in the mid-70s but nonetheless the initial days of trading at the mall were not rosy as the traders had been removed from their thriving establishments to a almost unknown territory The first then years of operations at the plaza were extremely difficult that many of the businesses did not endure During that period at least 30 percent of the unit owners either folded sold their businesses off to others made mergers or left