(a)(b)&(c) The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) has considered nationally, provincially and locally the legislation negatively affecting Small, medium and micro enterprises in South Africa. There are a multitude of legislative and regulatory criteria that small businesses need to comply with, not all of them are “onerous”, but still this provides a good indication that our regulatory frameworks are not well coordinated and synchronised, and are often duplicatory, placing both a cost and time burden on small businesses. The DSBD has prioritised twenty-nine (29) pieces of legislation (including related regulations, and by-laws, etc.) that impact on SMME growth and development. This is summarised in Figure 2 under point number aa&bb.
(aa)&(bb) Names of legislation and (bb) relevant details
(aaa) & (bbb) The Department has put out a request for quotations to enlist private sector red tape and small business development “experts” to conduct and analysis of these 29 pieces of legislation and regulations, as well as other targeted sources of red tape like CIPC reporting for cooperatives. We have already however analysed several areas of “red tape” and ease of doing business challenges over the past few years and group these into the following categories:
STELLA NDABENI-ABRAHAMS
MINISTER: SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT