Small businesses need leg-up from government to fulfil jobs potential
THE small business sector is waiting for its turn at the breakfast table with the president.Small businesses have the most potential to generate employment, but often feel they are the poorer cousins of their bigger counterparts whom the president consulted ahead of his state of the nation address last month."It is great the president engages with corporate SA, like he did prior to the state of the nation address, but I would like to see him have a breakfast and host small and medium enterprises," said Seapei Mafoyane, CEO of Shanduka Black Umbrellas.Ms Mafoyane, who oversees Shanduka’s nonprofit enterprise development-incubation body in collaboration with the private sector, the government and civil society, described issues in the sector."The value in resolving the problems facing small businesses does not lie in another government strategy, it lies in supporting them because they are big labour absorbers."The support mechanisms for entrepreneurs need to translate from policy, leg...
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