Gauteng sets up R500m fund to help businesses hit by unrest and Covid-19
By Siphelele Dludla
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THE GAUTENG provincial government has established a fund with more than R500 million to help businesses affected by the recent looting and the Covid-19 pandemic to get back on their feet.
Gauteng Enterprise Propeller (GEP) chief executive Saki Zamxaka made the announcement yesterday during an online engagement between the provincial government and black businesses.
Zamxaka said R250m would be allocated to the Township Economy Partnership Fund from an additional budget allocated by the provincial Department of Economic Development.
He said the GEP and the Industrial Development Corporation had already committed R150m each to a joint small, medium and micro enterprise (SMME) fund.
CLINTON TOWNSHIP Officials in Clinton Township continue to look into different ways to incentivize business opportunities across a mostly-developed community, including businesses that have called the township home for years.
Infrastructure development key to reigniting GP economic recovery plan – Makhura Makhura led a briefing of the provincial coronavirus command council on Friday, where he revealed the economic knock-on effect the virus has had. FILE: Gauteng premier David Makhura said they would go back to the drawing to focus on important areas to create employment. Picture: Picture: @GautengProvince/Twitter.
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JOHANNESBURG – Gauteng Premier David Makhura said the province needs to reignite its economic recovery plan by creating jobs through infrastructure development.
Makhura led a briefing of the provincial coronavirus command council on Friday, where he revealed the economic knock-on effect the virus has had.
[NEWSLETTER] SERI s last newsletter of 2020 is out! (15 December 2020).
In it we present a few highlights from our work since our last newsletter in September. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, SERI continues to embolden individuals, social movements and CBOs to use legal and research support to exercise their rights and to inform pro-poor government policy and practice.
In November, the Constitutional Court handed down a ground-breaking judgment ending the exclusion of domestic workers from the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, 1993 (COIDA). Also in November, SERI represented inner-city Johannesburg residents in the Constitutional Court, challenging a part of the South African Police Service Act, 1995 that allowed for warrantless raids that were conducted on their homes. SERI also appeared before the Western Cape High Court in