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SBI releases situational analysis of the status of SMMEs in South Africa during Covid-19
October 6 2020 The Small Business Institute (SBI) released today a review of the unprecedented flood of papers, surveys and scenarios – over 160 – concerned with South African small, micro and medium-sized businesses (SMMEs), formal and informal, written since the arrival of Covid-19 and the country’s lockdown response. Exxaro is funding the SBI follow-up…
Read MoreSBi Calls On All SMEs To Continue Saving Lives As They Gear Up To Save Livelihoods
May 28 2020 As the country moves into alert level 3 in certain places on June 1 2020, the Small Business Institute calls on all SMEs in South Africa – both formal and informal – to prepare and sanitise their workplaces to receive the millions of workers and customers who are returning next Monday. At…
Read MoreOpen letter to the president His Excellency, Cyril Ramaphosa
May 12 2020 Dear Sir, The Small Business Institute beseeches our government to revise regulations pertaining to business issued during our State of Disaster immediately. The harm they are causing the economy cannot be justified; there is no discernible link between many of them and the stated aim of protecting people from transmitting the Covid-19…
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