Sekela Sihlalo ohloniphekile, Ngqongqoshe womnyango ohloniphekle, ngabe zikhona yini izinhlelo zokwelekelela osomabhizinisi abasafufusayo emnyangweni wakho, abesifazane, yintsha, abahlala emakhaya nabahlala emalokishini? Nokuthi uma zikhona lezo zinhlelo, zikuphi, lezo onazo? Ngiyabonga, Ngqongqoshe.
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UMPHATHISWA WEZONXIBELELWANO: Isebe eli lelinye lamasebe athi kwa kubalulekile ukuba kubekho inkqubo ejongene nokuphuhliswa kwamashishini asakhulayo nokokuba loo mashishini asedolophini, ezilokishini okanye ezilalini. Okwethu kukuqinisekisa ukuba kule nkqubo ikhona njengoko siyazi ukuba wonke umntu unonomyayi esandleni, kwabanye babini okanye bathathu. Xa besonakala aba nomyayi, umntu kufuneka akhwele esiya kude. Siye sathi ke kubalulekile ukuba si...
English:
... identify an opportunity there to say, we engage with the original equipment manufacturers, OEMs, to say, let's support the SMMES in making sure our cell phones can be repaired by small businesses, and part of that, as the strategy explained, is to make sure that we provide the capacity to these people, the small businesses, including mobilising funds for them to buy the equipment because one of the key things is that our people do not own equipment which becomes the key responsibility of the DTI, ourselves and the Department of Science and Technology to say, how do we work together to make sure that, as we have spoken of growing the township and village economy, we can collaborate to make sure that our fruits can be realised and an opportunity be given to the small businesses that are there.
Certain training has been conducted, entrepreneurship programmes. We have taken recently about 20 SMMEs to the International Telecommunication Union, ITU Telecom World, and all of them were exposed in terms of the work that they are doing and we are planning to put them in the market. We appreciate hon members that we are going to be challenged because the status quo is comfortable with what is happening. People refuse to transform but unfortunately, as I have said earlier, at times we have got to take unpopular decisions in the interest of the majority of our
people so we will be embarking on that and we will, as part of the digital industrial strategy, come back to unpack how else do we plan to unbundle the monopolisation of the telecoms sector that I spoke about. Thank you, Chairperson