Thank you very much. I think the response to this question is, the first thing that must happen in a municipal space, in a province, is that any small business that is operating there must be registered, it must be known.
Now, if that business is known, that business can apply for support either financially in terms of infrastructure that must be built in that area, in terms of business support, incubation. There are a number of support mechanisms that are there that can be offered to a small business. But the fact of the matter is that business must be registered. So, we will take a campaign to ensure that every business that is operating is operating legally and that person who is operating that business is here in this country legally.
That is fundamental to do but beyond that, it is our responsibility as the government to support these small businesses and ensure that whatever goods they are producing they find a market.
We are going to work with all these small businesses in all the provinces to find markets for the products that they are producing and I have said that government presents itself as one market that is available to buy these goods and services from these SMMEs.
But one thing that we must eliminate is SMMEs that are selling goods that are not of good quality, goods that have expired that are harmful to consumers. That is not going to be allowed. You would have realised that in a number of provinces premiers taking this campaign visiting businesses and they found some of these expired goods that are being sold to our people. So, we are going to protect our consumers from these businesses as much as we want to support these businesses to be in business. Thank you very much.
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