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Business Day: SIPHO NKOSI: Cut red tape to prevent small business staying informal

Initiatives in Rwanda, Mexico and the UK show that making

Press release: SBI launches SBI Index Tracker scorecard

June 17 2019 Embargo: none The Small Business Institute announces today that it is launching a new scorecard – SBI Index Tracker – that will measure South Africa’s performance relative to other countries on the ease of doing business and other metrics of success...

Press release: SBI is disappointed SMEs remained in Departmental Silo, pledges to work with new DSBD

Press release: SBI is disappointed SMEs remained in Departmental Silo, pledges to work with new DSBD May 30 2019 The Small Business Institute is disappointed that the Small Business Development Department (DSBD) has been retained as part of the sixth administration....

Press Release: SBI steps up campaign against late payment of SMEs

Small businesses are called the ‘lifeblood’ and the ‘backbone’ of

OPED: Sunday Times – Cabinet Consultation

Recently the Small Business Institute was part of a business delegation consulted by the government about a reconfigured cabinet. Our approach to the question centred on two tenets:

SBI hosts its first Small Business Indaba

The Small Business Institute will be holding its first of

SBI expresses concern over ongoing strike at SARS

March 31 2019 The Small Business Institute appeals to workers’ representatives and leadership at the SA Revenue Service (SARS) to urgently resolve their wage dispute which is threatening small businesses in SA. “The strike, entering its second week, is the latest...

Press release: SBI calls on government to stop Eskom’s slaughter of small businesses

The Small Business Institute calls on government to redouble efforts

New social media effort by the SBI to promote products and services of South Africa’s SMEs

The Small Business Institute (SBI) today launched an Instagram account

SBI URGES MBOWENI TO SUPPORT SMME GROWTH IN HIS BUDGET

SBI URGES MBOWENI TO SUPPORT SMME GROWTH IN HIS BUDGET February 19 2019 Embargo: none The Small Business Institute is appealing to Finance Minister Tito Mboweni to lift the threshold of taxable small firms to R5 million of annual turnover to develop the small...

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