SMME

Township and Rural Entrepreneurship Programme

The Scheme supports all small enterprises operating in townships and rural areas that meet the qualifying criteria including but not limited to the following sectors:

  • Clothing & Textile

  • Bakeries & Confectionaries

  • Tshisanyama and Cooked Food

  • Retail (including restaurants, car washes, general dealers etc.)

  • Automotive

  • Personal Care

  • Artisans

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Township Economy Partnership Fund: Calls for Application

Qualifying Criteria 

SMME, Co-Operative or Startup;

  • must operate in Gauteng and have its head office in Gauteng
  • be 100% South African owned
  • be trading for over a year
  • be registered with CIPC and
  • be compliant with SARS
  • have a valid South African identity document
  • and be 100% SA owned

Informal traders 

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CSIR Biomanufacturing Industry Development Centre (BIDC) Call for Expression of Interest (EoI) Product and process development incubation support to Small, Medium and Micro-sized Enterprises (SMMEs)

The BIDC is a CSIR initiative to provide technical product and process development support to Small, Medium and Micro-sized Enterprises (SMMEs) in the biomanufacturing sector, with the aim of creating and expanding biomanufacturing activity and associated job creation. 

Closing date
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