LETTER: A confused attack on small business department
The reference to corruption is mischievous and opportunism at its worst
In his letter of 19 December 2018, Bernard Swanepoel accuses me of protecting my job and that of small business development minister Lindiwe Zulu as I am her adviser. Such personal attacks are not surprising as they muddy the water and blur conceptual issues. Unsurprisingly, Swanepoel insists on the demand by his Small Business Initiative (SBI) and the Small Business Project (SBP) that the department of small business development be closed and small business developmentbe implemented across all departments. Rightly, he says it is a function of all government departments. To assist him a little, all government departments have small business initiatives and the role of the department of small business development is to coordinate. Hence it has transversal agreements with various departments. However, negotiations and resistance are the order of the day as these entities have strategies and contracts with service providers in place. in any case, efforts at coordination continue and mo...
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