Saturday, August 04, 2007

Hundreds benefit from vouchers

By Anele Siwa
04 August 2007

Over a thousand Cape Flats entrepreneurs have received valuable business support through the City of Cape Town’s voucher programme for small businesses.

“The Department of Economic Development in the City and myself we promote the establishment of small businesses in terms of creating jobs in the community that need them,” says Councila Simon Grindrod.

Grindrod says these business vouchers are a way that the City can help small entrepeneus to access services acountants and market companies to help them gain experience.

In a report tabled before the City’s Mayoral Committee, it was noted that 1 323 entrepreneurs had benefited from this initiative since the first voucher was issued in April 2006.

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