SPECIAL REPORT - Straight from the editors mouth
Telkom, a few corporates, ICASA and the state continue to hinder growing businesses
Since 1994 when I launched South Africa's first small business publication (Your Own Business, which some readers may remember), the noble efforts of small business owners, the aspirations of emerging entrepreneurs and the hopes of millions of unemployed South Africans have been systematically trashed by tardy and bureaucratic approaches to small business support.

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Improving entrepreneurship in SA
With the 2007 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Report again indicating that South Africa performs poorly in comparison to other emerging economies in terms of entrepreneurial activity and development, attention is being focused on interventions which support and encourage business initiatives and development. “The environment in this country bodes well for entrepreneurs, offering considerable opportunity, availability of finance and indications of both political and business will to encourage development,” says Melt van der Spuy, director, Business Support, Business and Private Banking at Standard Bank.

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Shawn Hancock [Designer]
Warwick Smith-Chandler [Editor]
Storm Buckingham [Technology Editor]
Ashleen Cupido [Advertising]

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