Puma

Puma forecourts across Johannesburg serve as small economic nodes in their neighbourhoods — places where regular patterns emerge. The taxi operator who refuels every afternoon, the delivery driver on his fourth stop of the day, the commuter grabbing milk on the way home — these routines create a social fabric around a forecourt. Beyond fuel transactions, these stops become part of local infrastructure: a place to ask for directions, buy airtime for someone's number you just wrote down, or know you'll see a familiar face. In sprawling Johannesburg, where distances isolate people, a neighbourhood forecourt that remembers regulars and stocks what locals actually need functions differently than a highway pump. Puma's distribution across the city has given them presence in residential areas where the forecourt becomes less of a transaction and more of a community touchpoint — the kind of place that matters to how a suburb actually functions.