February 21 2023 Ahead of the national budget – to be tabled on Wednesday – the SBI calls on Finance Minister, EnochGodongwana, to support small businesses and their employees, households and families battling high cost of living and load shedding. “We appeal to the minister to spell out how government will be supporting South Africans…
Press Release July 13 2021 The Small Business Institute (SBI) strongly condemns the wanton looting of businesses, destruction of vital economic infrastructure, burning of trucks and blockading of roads primarily in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. We also call on law-enforcement agencies to urgently protect lives, property and businesses which have become the main target of the…
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…
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…
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…
Press release from SBI (Previously AHI) 25 September 2017 NEW FOCUS FOR SMALL BUSINESS CHAMBER ORGANISATION For the past year, the AHI business chamber organisation has taken steps to renew itself to safeguard its relevance and diversity and become the ‘Big Voice for Small Business’. Following its special general meeting on Friday 22 September, the…
22 August 2017 The AHI notes the comments by Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe that timing for payments by government to suppliers is improving. (Click here to read the full speech by Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe) Earlier this year AHI President Bernard Swanepoel initiated a campaign targeting both big businesses and government…