LETTER: Urgent support needed by 250,000 SMEs
The public and private sectors need to pull on more innovative hats for 2020
18 December 2019 - 17:06
We couldn’t agree more with David Polkinghorne (Germany shows small business is the way to increase employment, December 18) about how heartening it is to finally applaud government for highlighting the importance of a thriving small business segment to the economy.
We would point out, however, that research done last year sponsored by the Small Business Institute (SBI) and conducted by the Small Business Project (SBP) refutes trade & industry department statistics he uses since we now know that SA has only a quarter of a million small and medium enterprises (SMEs). ..
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