1. The department of small business development was proclaimed in July 2014 and currently does not have this information. Since this is a critical sector of the economy the department has prioritized the development of an Integrated Strategy and Implementation Plan on Township and Rural Enterprise Development. Amongst other things this strategy will assist with the following:
The department is confident that this study which is going to be done in 2016/17 financial year in partnership with the departments that fall under the Economic Sectors, Employment and Infrastructure Development (ESEID) Cluster will address some of the questions that have been asked in this question.
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(a) Noting that there are insufficient and nonstandardised measurements of what consists the totality of a township economy relative to a regional, provincial, national and global economies, it is not yet possible to rank the performance and responsiveness of townships’ economies.
(b) Consequently, save for a framework that defines the nature and structure of township economies as well as the data sources for measuring it, thus far, reliable methods by means of which the monetary value of the goods and services produced within townships have not been isolated and represented during any specific time.