Mailbox: Ever increasing reporting and bureaucracy in SA
South African small business faces a bureaucratic nightmare with multiple agencies demanding redundant information.
South African small business faces a bureaucratic nightmare with multiple agencies demanding redundant information.
There is such a thing as job creation and that is what the minister of ‘small business development’ was promising to stop.
Corrigan argues that the Constitution does not help the historically disadvantaged to overcome obstacles to obtaining secure title to land.
Tax and the compliance costs imposed by the various tax laws are a tremendous burden to small firms. They are, in fact, one of the greatest inhibitors of small firm development.
The NISED Masterplan also confirms that in the past three decades, SMME growth has been stagnant at best, writes NEASA’s Luthando Nondaba.
The ANC dislikes business in general (naturally; its ideology is communism, and its most influential thinkers are communist) but it particularly dislikes small business.
Systems save time. The problem is that the initial setup could require time investment and in light of this, the benefit of having a system can get overlooked.
There is such a thing as job creation and that is what the minister of ‘small business development’ is promising to stop.
In 2020, Jonathan Oppenheimer described the decision to channel the money into a trust which would support SMMEs as an “aha” moment for the family.
South African business owners are bracing for hard times after the government tightened lockdown restrictions to limit the spread of Covid-19.