By Ann Williams. (Originally written in August 2011.) In the past few months there has been an outcry by the Black Management Forum (BMF) and its various professional organisational associates about it not being allowed to control Business Unity South Africa (BUSA), and the BMF and associates saying that therefore “black business in South Africa [...]
South Africa needs a full-scale entrepreneurial revolution
25 August 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Martin Feinstein. IT’s a good sign that the word “entrepreneurialism” appears for the first time in the National Planning Commission’s National Development Plan. Heaven knows, we need a master plan. There are many who will make the case for huge infrastructure and private investment and macro-industrial policy reform. But I want to make the [...]
We need that Youth Wage Subsidy – in the form of an internship
7 August 2012 By Leave a Comment
A proposal by 2BBiz.co.za Editor, Ann Williams, on how to get South Africa’s youth into the labour market…. “Ticking Time Bomb” screams the headline on the front page of the Pretoria News (28/02/2012). It is referring to the approximately 3-million young South Africans who don’t have jobs; many of whom have also given up on [...]
Getting access to financial support for women with micro-enterprises
1 August 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Ann Williams. It’s women’s month in South Africa and once again we talk about violence against women and women’s battle to reach equity in management positions in business and government. To a much lesser extent we talk about the economic disparity of women, particularly poorer black women in rural areas. So I’d like to [...]
Business incubators or expensive artisan training?
9 March 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Ann Williams. The Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) celebrated the fourth International Global Incubation Day on Friday by holding incubator information days in three provinces. SEDA presented the recent successes of their 31 incubators and spoke about government’s outlook on how incubators were going to help build the economy by providing more jobs. Some [...]
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