Tag: Moipone Malefane

By Moipone Malefane Spaza shops form part of the country's economy, they provide affordable goods, create jobs and serve as a springboard for many small businesses. However, to ensure their ...

By Moipone Malefane To assert that 2022 has been a hard year in the business environment, and for SMMEs particularly, would be an understatement. While SMMEs make up most businesses ...

By Moipone Malefane This month, over 200 nations, including ours, celebrated Global Entrepreneurship Week. Everyone united behind one global mission: to encourage more people to consider entrepreneurship as an alternative ...

By: Moipone Malefane We hear the same message in South Africa ad nauseam: SMMEs should be the backbone of our economy, but we are largely failing to support their growth. ...

The South African government through the Department of Small Business Development (DBSD) will host a National SMME and Cooperatives Summit in November. The DSBD has chosen 13 to 15 November ...

Investing in women entrepreneurs should be a no-brainer. In South Africa as well as globally, women make up more than half of the population. It is only logical that by ...

For SMEs to keep their doors open and even thrive in what is often a tough economic environment, they must keep up with the constant changes in the economy and ...

Like everywhere else small businesses in South Africa face a myriad of challenges, with an estimated 70% to 80% of them failing within their first five years. Their uphill battles ...