Business Support
How we can help you.
Understand funding as an SMME.
Are you an SMME trying to understand the funding landscape a bit more? We offer the following short video clips around Accessing Finance with some of our partners in the eco system.
Watch all six chapters HERE
Prepare your business for investment.
The Intro to Early-Stage Investing online short course is a free course for aspiring investors, powered by the Western Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism (DEDAT).
Start the course HERE
Start your business.
The Red Tape Reduction unit has developed an easy-to-engage video tutorial to demonstrate the key steps, and thoughts to consider when wanting to start a business.Watch the tutorial below:
Connect your business.
Smmes can find linkages to partners where opportunities are including municipalities. Download a list of potential funding partners HERE
Enable your business.
Remove bottlenecks in your business environment with the help of the RedTape Reduction unit and the Business Support Helpline.
Our mandate
Our approach to improving the ease of doing business will be underpinned by three categories of interventions each driven by the following sub-programmes:
- Enterprise evelopment - assisting and supporting small business through interventions that lead to business expansion in terms of turnover, productivity, asset value and or labour absorption;
- Regional and Local Economic Development – interventions aimed primarily at improving the local municipal business environment through support to municipalities, business and other key role-players;
- Red Tape Reduction – interventions aimed at reducing the regulatory burden on business (and saving costs for government) through improved legislation, processes and systems and communication.