| SME NEWS HEADLINES | ISSUE 26 | 14 MARCH 2007 |
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Challenges faced by South African women
South African sisters are increasingly doing it for themselves, and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring rankings, released last month, put our female entrepreneurs 23rd of 42 countries, while South Africa's overall entrepreneurial population comes in 30th. However, according to Gideon Maas, principal GEM researcher at the UCT Graduate School of Business, women are still performing below the global average even while performing locally better than men. “Worldwide, females are outnumbered by male entrepreneurs,” says Maas. “The global average for female entrepreneurship is 7.7% of the population. South African women are currently at just 4.8%.”
FASA PREDICTS RAPID GROWTH IN FRANCHISING LEADING UP TO 2010
As the Franchise Association of Southern Africa (FASA) prepares for a rotational change in its chairmanship and council for the coming two years, things have never looked better and everything points to continued growth in the franchising sector leading up to 2010.
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Your small, medium or micro enterprise (SMME) may be recognised as the Africa SMME of the Year.If your business has grown in a responsible and sustainable manner over the last few years and is furthermore contributing to the African and local economy, we feel you need recognition.
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Flagship South African business and technology incubator launches competition to turn entrepreneurial visions into commercial realities.
Broadband price wars boost all SME's
Despite President Thabo Mbeki's promise made in the presidential address earlier this year, relaying governments rather vague commitment to reduce (somehow) the cost of fixed line telecoms costs (somewhat) in the unspecified future (somewhere), it seems that if it weren't for MTN's bold action earlier last week, data transfer costs would still be as high as they were pre-address. |
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