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Business leaders questioned JSE black ownership data amid debates on B-BBEE, funding and transformation in Johannesburg.

By: Anna Majavu  The National Treasury’s latest plan to borrow R500 billion per year to fund this year’s budget and refinance the debt it already owes is highly unlikely to benefit SMMEs, three macroeconomic policy experts told Vutivi News. National Treasury has also said it is considering closing programmes like expanded public works and informal settlement upgrades, increasing VAT, ...

By: Anna Majavu The time has come for the government to instruct the SA Reserve Bank to institute lending quotas for black SMMEs, who remain starved of credit and unable ...

By Anna Majavu President Cyril Ramaphosa must announce major new funding streams for different informal and small businesses, including informal traders and taxis, in his State of the Nation Address ...