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<p style="text-align: justify;">The inaugural<span style="color: #333399;"><strong> <em>Enterprise Development Indaba </em></strong></span>affords both public and private sector stakeholders the opportunity to partner this auspicious occasion, which will create an interactive platform to debate the real impact of the support rendered to the country’s SMME segment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Indaba will cover the essential issues pertaining to the challenges facing Enterprise Development and more in particular a discussion that will centre on forging closer cooperation between the respective stakeholders.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Indaba will aim to ensure that this sector of the economy indeed receive its fair share of growth opportunities through sustainable interventions leading to much needed growth in GDP coupled with the key priority economic challenges faced by the country as a whole.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The first ever <strong><em>Enterprise Development Awards</em></strong> will form part of the Indaba and stakeholders will reach recognition for their unselfish passion and commitment towards the developmental needs of small businesses in general. Awards will handed out in three different categories inclusive of government, business support organisations and corporate enterprise development programmes respectively.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The Indaba will be followed by the <strong><em>Small Business Live TV Broadcast</em></strong>, which will be screened countrywide at venue’s hosted by municipalities, NGO’s an support agencies as well as other government entities hosting 1000’s of small businesses to share with them as to how to go about accessing both government and private sector support programs to grow their enterprises.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Broadcast will be done from a studio based in Johannesburg and it will feature presenters showing small businesses how to access services from institutional agencies like: -</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Small Enterprise Development Agency (seda)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- National Empowerment Fund (NEF)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Industrial Development Corporation (IDC)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- National Youth Development Agency (NYDA)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Land Bank</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Mafisa</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Provincial agencies</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The following presentations will also be broadcast and are inclusive of: -</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- DTI’s Incentives and Financial Support Schemes</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Interventions from the Ministry of Small Business Development</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Corporate Enterprise Development Programmes</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Agency Support Services</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Access to Finance</p>
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<span style="color: #333399;"><strong>Schedule:</strong></span>

<strong>14 February 2017:</strong> Enterprise Development Indaba &amp; Awards' Dinner

<strong>15 February 2017:</strong> Small Business Live (Studio Audience &amp; Site Viewing)

<span style="color: #333399;"><strong>Details coming soon.</strong></span>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]