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News releases & OpEds
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 in...
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 blow...
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...
SBI WELCOMES RAMAPHOSA’S FOCUS ON INCLUSIVE GROWTH
The Small Business Institute welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa’s focus on inclusive growth and job creation, and determination to fix Eskom and to step up the fight against corruption.
SBI CALLS ON RAMAPHOSA TO CHAMPION SMME-LED GROWTH
Ahead of his second State of the Nation Address (SONA), as part of the public-private growth initiative delegation to President Cyril Ramaphosa, the Small Business Institute (SBI) has tabled a set of proposals to ensure that the small business segment is placed at the front and centre of economic growth and job creation.
SBI BEEFS UP ITS CAPACITY
The Small Business Institute announces today that two top-rated South African economists and thought leaders are joining its board as part of SBI’s bid to strengthen its capacity to champion the voice of small business.
News release: SBI’s public comments on DSBD proposed amendments to definitions of SMMEs
SBI welcomes amendments by Department of Small Business Development to definitions of SMMEs
SBI’s submission on DSBD proposed amendments to definitions of SMMEs
Submission Presented by the SBI (Small Business Institute) [31 October, 2018] In response to the Updating of Schedule 1 of the National Definition for Small Enterprises in South Africa (Gazette Notice No 41970: published 12 October 2018) E-mail to:...
The number of formal micro, small & medium businesses in South Africa.
President Ramaphosa has asserted that, “the growth of our economy will be sustained by small businesses, as in the case of many countries”. And most of our policy documents since the 1995 white paper have laid out South Africa’s ambitions to emulate the job creating...
SBI reported in the news
Business Day TV: WATCH: How power cuts are weighing on SMEs
SA’s energy woes have had a major impact on local
TimesLIVE: The Directors Event: ‘Government should subsidise NPOs making a social impact in communities’
The government should subsidise non-profit organisations that are making a
Business Day: JOHN DLUDLU: Small businesses need more than just loans to bounce back
It would be churlish to dismiss as insignificant the government’s
Business Report: SBI and Fasa welcome SA’s Bounce Back Support Scheme
John Dludlu, the CEO of the SBI, said although the
Business Times: ‘Bounce Back’ billions on offer
A R15bn credit guarantee scheme from National Treasury has come
SABC News: Small business owners complain about power outages caused by load shedding
Small business owners say the short notice of power outages
Vutivi Business News: SME finance providers included as Bounce back scheme financiers
Small and medium-sized finance providers will form part of
Business Report: Small business welcomes Budget’s bounce-back scheme to support SMEs
SMALL businesses were a “willing and capable partner” that looked
Business Day TV: WATCH: Budget 2022 – Business Panel
Busisiwe Mavuso, Chief Executive Officer: Business Leadership South Africa; John
Vutivi Business News: Business demands that government conforms to changes in red tape regulations
Now Ramaphosa wants regulations that are unduly complicated, costly and
Sunday World: New dawn awaits SMMEs
Johannesburg- The concrete steps to improve the ease of doing
Business Report: Sona was good for business confidence, says economists
This comes as President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a radical policy
Fin24: Sipho Nkosi’s red tape team will unlock billions in investments – Minerals Council
The Minerals Council of South Africa heaped praise on President
Vutivi Business News: New Bounce Back loan guarantee scheme for small business
A newly redesigned loan guarantee scheme aimed at small businesses
EWN: RAMAPHOSA: ‘RED-TAPE TEAM’ TO MAKE IT EASIER TO DO BUSINESS IN SA
President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed former mining boss and chairperson of
