{"id":233605,"date":"2022-08-08T15:26:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/gauteng-township-retailers-to-receive-support\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T15:26:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:26:38","slug":"gauteng-township-retailers-to-receive-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/gauteng-township-retailers-to-receive-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng township retailers to receive support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gauteng Premier David Makhura has announced a R100 million fund that is aimed at supporting businesses in the township retail sector.<\/p>\n

He was speaking at the launch of the Gauteng Township Retail Programme at Sam Ntuli Stadium in Thokoza on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

The Premier said although the provincial government is committed to supporting township enterprises to grow, those living in the townships also have to begin buying from local shops.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have implementing partners all around the townships so the township businesses must be organised. It [makes it] easier for us to support a group or association [of retailers] than doing it on an individual basis. When the businesses are organised, you are more powerful.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The community] must also buy from each other. We must spend the money that we have in the township. Buy the bread made next door – you will get a good price and you will also be helping to grow the township economy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Makhura said women business owners will specifically be targeted for support.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere can be no township economy without women. The women’s businesses… are the largest in our townships. Most of the people who are selling and involved in business in the township are women. So we must have a specific target … [that says] of this R100 million, how of much of that will be for women-owned businesses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Makhura explained that revitalising and building stronger sectors of the township economy will take some hard work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we want to fix the township economy, we must start with those small retail businesses and make sure they are supported by government. [We] are already supporting some township businesses in order to help them grow. We want the people in the township \u2013 for generation after generation \u2013 to be the ones running these businesses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The announcement of the fund comes at least 100 days since Makhura signed the Township Economy Development Act into law.<\/p>\n

The law requires, among other interventions, provincial government departments to procure at least 40% of goods and services from township businesses where possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the implementation of the Township Economy Act. That law must not just be a policy, it must be implemented. It must not be shelved or put away in offices in must be implemented so that we can feel the township economy [growing].<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many people in the township who are working hard\u2026who don\u2019t sleep to make sure they make proper businesses to support and feed their children. The township development act is about supporting those businesses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Makhura said other sectors \u2013 township manufacturers and township real estate \u2013 will also be receiving attention. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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