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Although this article covers what President Obama and America are doing for small business, I thought I'd post it as small businesses form the backbone of any economy...These points are valid in South Africa as our small businesses are so important to our economy.... Today President Obama travelled to Seattle, Washington and met with three local ...

In celebration of Madiba's 92nd birthday we would like to contribute to a small business that is doing good in their local community. We would like to sponsor a worthy small business products and services to the value of R10 000. This sponsorship will run yearly as our Madiba day contribution.... ...

Cape Town – MPs considering the tax changes proposed by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in his February budget heard that some proposals will hurt small businesses, because the new rules will discourage private lenders from putting money into them. Cape Town – MPs considering the tax changes proposed by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in ...

Cape Town - The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) has in its first year extended 7 500 microfinance loans to the value of R23m, Monitoring and Evaluation Minister Collins Chabane said on Wednesday.He told the National Assembly the NYDA has disbursed a further R3 million in loans to small- and medium-sized enterprises and issued 4 244 busines ...

Softline buys Netcash In a deal that has exciting possibilities for SMME's in South Africa, Softline - the provider of South Africa's most popular accounting software - Pastel, has announced that they have acquired Netcash.  Charles Pittaway, Director of Netcash issued a statement as follows: Softline buys Netcash In a deal that has exciting pos ...

This guide provides general guidelines dealing with –• Foreign income received by or accrued to an individual (natural person) who is a South African resident (resident);• Income received by or accrued to an individual, who is not a South African resident (non-resident), from a source within South Africa; and• The treatment of capital gains in the ...

Employees from Accsys, a national supplier of payroll, HR, Time & Attendance and Access Control solutions, recently marked the national celebration of Nelson Mandela Day by volunteering their time to the benefit of Hearts of Hope, a local orphanage. Employees from Accsys, a national supplier of payroll, HR, Time & Attendance and Access ...

  The Karoo as an Economic Region : The Karoo is a semi-desert region that encompasses some of the most historically impoverished rural areas of the country. Due to recent political policies that focused mainly on urban development there has been very little economic investment in the region. The Karoo is brimming with unrecognised economic ...

I'd like to to tell you about how I became a Professional Architectural Draughtsman. A dream once, a desire, to be significant in my way, and to fulfill the need to feel stimulated in the word I do, and that's to create. I wanted to create a world where I create lifestyles for people, and alter their homes or design new dwellings. I'd like to to t ...

The importance of Business Planning Anytime you are going in to talk to a property manager about leasing space for your business, or you are meeting with a potential lender or investor, your business plan will provide a outline of who you are and what your purpose is. Your Business Plan has to show that your business is a good risk and will be p ...

The news that ESCOM will increase 24.8% this year, 25.8% in 2011 and 25.9% in 2012. What does this actually mean?For every R1 of electricity you spend today, after the three hikes you will spend R1.98 in 2012, that mean basically that your electricity bill will be doubled. The good part is that is it not 35%, the increase per annum that Escom was ...

Pravan Gordham first budget was a difficult one and although he had not much to play with he did give some relief for the man in the street. Here is the things he did not say but that will have an effect on everybody: Pravan Gordham first budget was a difficult one and although he had not much to play with he did give some relief for the man in th ...

Many businesses have computers with MS Office already installed but which are either not used at all, or used in a very limited way for some financial record keeping, reporting or document editing.MS Office, and more specifically the Excel spreadsheet program included therein, is a very powerful business tool for the SMME. Many businesses have com ...

Choices we make   Choice consists of the mental process of judging the merits of multiple options and just selecting one of them. There is not an hour that goes by where we do not have to choose;  red or blue, black or cream … lets face it every aspect of our lives today is made up of choices.  As it happens, our brains are fai ...

How many of us sitting here today have a dream, a goal they want to reach? Be it big or small, short term or long term? I’m sure we all do … My name is Martin Trevor Brown … And I had a DREAM …….. 13 years ago on a scorcher of a Saturday morning I gently dived off a jetty at the Vaal river and struck a submerged sandbank …it was instant … How ma ...

A JOURNEY OF INTROSPECTIONTO SELF HEALINGShahah's Ladder is a seven day program that takes the participant on an internal journey to find the healer within. This allows one the opportunity to heal many illnesses, at physical, mental and emotional planes. This program is in effect a planned journey undertaken to try to un-manifest the toxic nature ...