Locals Urged to Seize Small Business Opportunities

It is time South Africa starts developing a generation of entrepreneurs who can create jobs in the townships, says the Deputy Minister of Small Business Development Jane Sithole.

- Masoka Dube

Sithole urged small business owners to take advantage of the R500 million Spaza Shop Support Fund that was launched in Soweto last Tuesday.

"We need a nation that can create jobs for themselves instead of leaving their home towns and working in the cities."

"If our people can take the opportunities that the government is offering, we need to change this mindset of our people who always complain about unemployment."

The aim is to create a situation in which we will see people from the township having access to work without travelling to the big cities.