I agree
with that assertion because in the programme of EPWP as mush as we are intervening in terms of poverty and giving people stipends, what is long- term is that these people come out of the programme with skills. With those skills they can start their own business or they can find employment.
Now, you are saying that as you support EPWP which is the gaining of skills and the training, you must also support SMMEs because the likelihood is that these people are going to be absorbed by these SMMEs and that is what we are doing. Government has decided to create a Department of Small Business so that we can place focus squarely on growing small enterprises.
We are going to support the Minister of Small Business and work together so that these SMMEs are supported and there is an aftercare programme that they do not fail or relapse so that an opportunity is created to absorb these participants of EPWP. Thank you.
Question 5: