Enterprise development in South Africa is a complex task, but an absolute, positive necessity. South Africa suffers from a shortage of decent jobs, the pace of transformation lags expectations and disadvantaged groups remain economically underrepresented. This is most apparent in townships, where the distortions entrenched by apartheid persist 20 years after democracy. Township entrepreneurs face […]
Enterprises are made by their background, either in opposition to or because of it, and have certain societal benefits. The shape of South Africa’s economy and society has been forged by its collective history. Apartheid was designed to uplift one group of South Africans over all the others. Today, while legislated inequality is a ruin […]
Approach, Plan & Method, Benefits, Enterprise Development, Insights, Supplier Development, Tools & Methods
South Africa’s economy, 25 years after the official end of apartheid, is structurally imbalanced. The dominance of limited number of players in different sectors is a vestige of the apartheid era, a status quo that must be changed for South Africa to be able to address the triple challenges of unemployment, poverty and inequality. SMME […]
