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Khula Enterprise Finance
Khula facilitates access to credit for small, medium and micro-enterprises (SMMEs) through commercial banks, retail financial intermediaries and micro-credit outlets. It provides mentorship to guide and counsel entrepreneurs in various aspects of managing a business. Entrepreneurs do not get financial assistance directly from Khula.
Contact: (012) 394 5566/ www.khula.org.za
Business Partners Umsobomvu Franchise Fund
The programme helps to fund youth business projects and youth development projects. The Business Partners Umsobomvu Franchise Fund is a finance company that finances existing or new viable businesses. It requires capital from R60 000 to a million. It also has a voucher programme that helps entrepreneurs gain access to business development services support, like accounting and business plan development.
Contact: (011) 470 3111
Umsobomvu Youth Advisory Centres
Youth Advisory Centres are walk-in centres around the country where the youth can receive information, training and referral services.
Contact: 086 009 6884
Gender and Women Empowerment Unit
The Gender and Women Empowerment Unit manages the South African Women Entrepreneur's Network (SAWEN). The SAWEN was established to assist women entrepreneurs in South Africa to overcome a wide array of persistent obstacles and barriers to their business operations. The SAWEN concept aims to provide women entrepreneurs with solutions to these challenges by addressing the constraining factors. Constraints specific to women include gender discrimination and negative perceptions that persist despite the fact that female-owned enterprises contribute an ever-increasing share of national revenue. Enterprise size is another constraint for women; almost all female-owned enterprises fall into the lower end of the SMME category, being either very small or micro-sized companies, while men predominate the larger, more lucrative sectors. Approximately 70 percent of informal businesses in South Africa are owned and/or controlled by women.
Contact: (012) 394 1605/6
Technology for Women in Business (TWIB)
TWIB aims to make science and technology more accessible to women in business, particularly women in SMMEs.
Contact: (012) 841 4983 or www.twib.co.za
Skills Development in the Cultural Industries
A skills development training strategy has been developed in partnership with the Department of Labour for the craft (product development and business/entrepreneur skills), film, design (interior design, graphic design, fashion design, text tile, ceramic design, jewellery design, industrial design, set design and others), and music sectors (business management, technology and song-writing). The strategy is implemented through the MAPPPSETA. Further information on the skills development programme is available on www.mappp-seta.co.za.
Contact : (011) 699 3007-9
Thuso Mentorship Programme
The Programme aims to ensure the transfer of skills on a one-to-one basis. It offers pre-loan ad post-loan services. During the pre-loan service, clients are assisted with advice, counselling and development of viable business plans.
Contact: (011) 315 0036/7
| Eastern Cape |
(043) 721 0437/0442
(041) 363 2570 |
| Free State |
(051) 430 0275 |
| Gauteng |
(011) 315 0036/7 |
| KwaZulu-Natal |
(031) 301 1916/1917 |
| Mpumalanga |
(013) 755 2370 |
| North West |
(014) 592 6392 |
| Western Cape |
(021) 671 9056/9057 |
Local Economic Development (LED)
These are municipality-led projects to create employment and growth in the area with the aim of alleviating poverty. They also improve linkages with other household, social and economic infrastructure programmes of government.
Contact: (012) 301 1058
Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA)
SEDA incorporates the Ntsika Enterprise Promotion Agency (Ntsika), the National Manufacturing Advice Centre Trust (NAMAC), the Community Public Private Partnership Programme (CPPP) and the Small Enterprise Human Development Programme. Its mandate includes the support and promotion of Co-operative enterprises to reach a greater variety of enterprises, particularly those located in rural areas. This support of alternative forms of enterprises will be an important way to facilitate the integration of second economy into the first economy.
Contact: (012) 428 5000 or 0860 103 703 (Business Information Centre)
The programme include:
- Business Referral and Information Network (BRAIN Programme)
The BRAIN programme was initiated by the dti, and is now managed by the NAMAC Trust. BRAIN's major objective is to supply high-quality, value-added information services through existing delivery structures to ensure improvement in the business of SMMEs, with the emphasis on businesses which empower historically disadvantaged individuals.
Any individual or small business that needs business information may call the national centre for assistance with business queries. Queries may vary from basic, general questions ('Who can help me finance my business?') to complex questions about manufacturing processes, international markets, patent infringements, and so on.
Contact: (012) 349 0100 or http://www.brain.org.za
Community Public-Private Partnership Programme (CPPP)
The main role of the CPPP is to facilitate and promote of economic activity in rural areas. This is achieved by linking resource-rich communities with relevant state and private investors who are interested in sustainable utilisation of natural resources. We facilitate mutually beneficial strategic partnering processes that include: drawing up of feasibility studies and business plans, organisational development, bankable business opportunities, empowerment strategies, marketing, and development of the methodology and rural business models. We also identify resources and equity. This offers new opportunities for private sector players to expand into untapped markets and resources, whilst ensuring that ownership rests in the communities.
The CPPP is committed to unlocking the economic value of state or community-owned land, so as to revitalise rural economies, reduce poverty, increase community empowerment and promote sustainable resource use in the country's poorest regions.
Another core activity is the development of appropriate and ongoing guidelines for community public private partnerships, based on experiences from pilot projects in the five key economic sectors – agribusiness and forestry, agro-biodiversity, fishing and aqua-culture, small-scale mining and tourism.
Contact: (012) 428 4125 OR www.cppp.org.za
South African Micro Finance Apex Fund (SAMAF)
SAMAF does not loan money or provide financial services directly to end-users but, but uses a range of partner organisations to deliver its products. These partner organisations are regional and local organisations that have experience in working with the communities and understand the day-to-day problems that people in these communities experience.
SAMAF will be working with its local partner organisations to provide loans of up to R10 000; the loans will be used for micro-enterprise activities and other productive uses. The primary target market of SAMAF and its partners are micro-entrepreneurs, as well as households that have an income of less than R1 500 per month.
Contact: (012) 394 1796
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