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News releases & OpEds
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Sowetan LIVE: Put small business centre stage of SA’s development
Are small businesses the ticket for economic recovery, growth and job creation?
Business Day: LETTER: Open up SME payments
Your editorial (Lip service paid to SME sector, July 30) refers. I commend the Small Business Institute (SBI) for its initiative
Business Day: EDITORIAL: Lip service paid to SME sector
For a segment of the economy that is expected to create close to 10-million jobs by 2030, it is disconcerting how little we still know
Engineering News: Baseline study aims to start debate on the state of SMEs in South Africa
The Small Business Institute (SBI) on Tuesday warned that the National Development Plan’s (NDP’s)
Business Day: SA ‘completely out of step’ with global SME growth trends
SA is a "complete outlier" internationally when it comes to employment creation by small and medium-sized enterprises, raising questions about possible policy and regulatory failure. Initial findings of a new study by the Small Business Institute (SBI) and the Small...
The Citizen: Red tape, policy are killing SA’s small business owners
Despite government’s good intentions, most small business policy and initiatives have failed ‘since their assumptions and data were wrong’. Low employment rates, conflicting laws, regulations and strategies, no policy harmony and a bird’s nest of red tape are...
ENCA: ENTREPRENEUR FINANCING
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Fin24: Business body rejects Ivan Pillay’s resignation, questions motive for charges
Cape Town - The Small Business Institute will not accept the resignation of its board member Ivan Pillay, saying in a statement on Thursday that it questions the motives of National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Shaun Abrahams. Pillay is the institute’s director of...
Sunday Tribune: Subcontractor’s pain: R290 000 owed
DURBAN - FOR ALMOST a year young businessman Mantsiri Mabala has been awaiting payment for services his company, Sebaka Engineering, rendered as a subcontractor in a Durban municipal project. Mabala is among a growing number of subcontractors who face severe...
Creamer media: SMEs still face challenges while entering new dawn of hope
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) continue to face several challenges, which has resulted in a slowing down of SME investment in the economy. While the National Development Plan (NDP) states that about 90% of jobs in South Africa should be created by SMEs by...
SABC: Small businesses continue to be overtaxed: Tax expert
Tax expert Dennis Davis says the way the tax system is designed in South Africa is set to disadvantage small businesses. Tax experts are concerned that small businesses are continuing to be over-regulated and overtaxed. The experts were speaking at a Small Business...
Creamer media: Small business needs a voice in policy debate – consultancy
Although recent political developments have led to renewed optimism about the South African economy, changes are needed to ensure that the small business enterprise (SME) sector flourishes. Independent private sector development and research company SBP project...
Business Day: Economic debate is still on centralization
At the Small Business Institute’s indaba in Bryanston last week
Financial mail: Grounds for hope for SMEs
Small businesses are reinvesting, following signs that government is serious
Business Report: Charter talks ‘must include junior miners’
JOHANNESBURG – Former Harmony chief executive Bernard Swanepoel has called for
