NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
WRITTEN REPLY
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION NO 983
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 22 August 2014
Mr S J F Marais (DA) to ask the Minister of Economic Development:
(1) Is the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) active in the
Thembisile Hani Local Municipality; if so, what are the addresses of
the SEFA offices serving the area;
(2) in the (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14 financial years (i) how many
applications did the specified offices receive, (ii) how many of these
applications were approved, (iii) what is the rand value of the
approved applications and (iv) how many of the approved applicants are
still in business? NW1136E
REPLY:
1) SEFA does not have an office in Thembisile Hani Local Municiplaity. The
area is serviced by the sefa Mpumalanga Provincial office in Nelspruit.
To ensure that sefa covers an entire province without investing funds in
establishing its own offices, Memoranda of Understanding (MOUâs) have
been signed with both seda and MEGA allowing sefa to use the seda and
MEGA branch offices as referral offices.
The addresses of the sefa Mpumalanga office and the seda Nkangala office
are as follows:
Sefa Mpumalanga Provincial Office
Unit U5, Nelcity Centre
Cnr Paul Kruger & Samora Machel Drive
Nelspruit
1200
The seda Nkangala Branch Office
23 Cnr Botha Avenue & Rhodes Street
Hi-Tech House
Witbank
1035
2) Below is a table on the applications received for the 2012-13 and 2013-
14 Financial years by the sefa Mpumalanga Provincial Office
|(a)Financial Year 2012-13 |
|Application|Applications |Approvals |No. of businesses |
|s Received |Approved | |still operational |
|46 |5 |R13Â 472 265 |4 |
| |
|(b)Financial Year 2013-14 |
|Application|Applications |Approvals |No. of businesses |
|s Received |Approved | |still operational |
|98 |12 |R16 706 926 |12 |
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