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Programmes in Limpopo

• Limpopo Business Support Agency
• Civil Society Grant Fund
• Land Access Programmes
• Seda
• Health and Social Development
• Safety and security: Manyeleti Youth Academy
• Labour
• Local Economic Development (LED)
• Thusong Centres contact details
• Useful contacts

Limpopo Business Support Agency (LIBSA)

LIBSA provides non-financial business support services. It also helps with the marketing, distribution and processing of agricultural products. It encourages entrepreneurship amongst women, the disabled and the youth. LIBSA promotes new business in mining, tourism, agriculture, manufacturing, construction, and information communication technology.

Contact LIBSA: 015 297 6473/85

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Civil Society Grant Fund

This fund helps poor communities to grow their own businesses and economy. It does so by granting funds to help Civil Society Organisations to become sustainable.

Contact the Civil Society Grant Fund: 015 291 2492

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Land Access Programmes

The Land Access Programmes are all part of the Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) Programme. LRAD was designed to help previously disadvantaged citizens to buy land or agricultural implements specifically for agricultural purposes. These programmes are available to farmers of all
levels of farming:

Safety-Net Projects

These projects allow farmers to produce crops that will be used only to feed themselves and their families, and not for the purposes of selling.

Equity Schemes

The Equity Schemes Programme gives members of an agricultural group a certain amount of ownership within their agricultural business. This means that each member will own a little bit of the farm/business, as well as be employed by it. Each group member will contribute a percentage of money and will then own a percentage (share) of the farming business in proportion to their financial contribution.

Production for Markets

Farmers who have broader farming skills and knowledge, as well as those who have their own finance through bank loans and/or their own assets, will enter the programme at a much higher level than those discussed so far. With the grants qualifying farmers receive, they will, for example, be able to buy bigger farms and therefore be able to farm on a much larger scale, which will make it possible for them to sell their produce at markets.

Agriculture in Communal Areas

Some people living in communal areas have land available to them, but don’t have the money to start using the land productively. These people can apply for help to start farming on this land. This can be either for their own benefit or for the purposes of making money through selling produce.

Contact LRAD: 015 295 7090

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Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda)

Seda provides information to small enterprises and prospective entrepreneurs that will help and encourage them to start and build sustainable businesses. Visit the local Seda office for information and advice on how to start a new enterprise and make a success of it. People can also go to a Seda if they already have a business, to make it stronger and more profitable. Seda has a special focus on cooperative enterprises.

Contact Seda: 015 297 4422

Useful contacts for business support:

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Health and Social Development

There are two programmes offered here:

• Auxiliary nursing training for Grade 12 pupils from poverty-stricken families.
  Contact: 015 293 6082
  
  
• Poverty Relief Projects: Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community-based organisations can obtain funding on poverty relief projects, for food parcels and stipends to destitute families.
  Contact: 015 293-6158/6/55

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Safety and Security: Manyeleti Youth Academy

The Manyeleti Youth Academy teaches life skills to youth at risk: leadership development, business skills, computer literacy, self-development, team-building and vocational skills, such as hospitality and catering, first aid, fire fighting, motor works and gardening.

Contact the Manyeleti Youth Academy: 015 290-2998

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Labour

This refers to Social Development projects offering funding for training. These projects include the Abet Funding Window and the Informal Sector Support Funding Window. Funding is available to benefit community-based co-operatives (CBCs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), as well as poverty alleviation projects.

Contact the Department of Social Development: 015 290 1607

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Local Economic Development (LED)

Every municipality has a Local Economic Development programme. Activities of these programmes vary from province to province but, in general, their purpose is to promote economic development in their areas.

Contact: 015 812 0425

Phone your local municipality for more information on their LED programme.

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Thusong Service Centres contact details

Website: www.thusong.gov.za

Useful contacts

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Last modified: 19 September 2008 13:08:06.