Hardat ‘Ravi’ Muniram is a 37-year-old, 18-year veteran of the jewellery industry who, two weeks ago, took a giant step in the direction of expanding his enterprise. After 16 years of running his business from a dilapidated, rented building situated at 1 D’Urban Street, Werk-en-Rust, Ravi, as he is known, moved his operations to his own multi-million-dollar three-storey premises immediately adjacent to where he had worked for almost half of his life.
It is a dramatic transformation. A lighted sign outside the building announces the new Elegance Pawnshop and the building itself is decorated with streamers, placed there to celebrate the arrival of the establishment in ‘the big league’ of the pawnshop industry. From the streets one can see half a dozen or so kiosks on the ground floor
