SA LADIES IN SMALL BUSINESS



http://www.2trees-media.com/blog/2009/10/great-series-running-small-business-women



Life is very hard for many women in South Africa. Some of them cannot feed their kids because they are unemployed. This has been made worse by the fact that over the last two decades, the formal economy (especially mining) has shedding jobs and many workers were retrenched. Furthermore, every year hundreds of thousands of new seekers (the vast majority of them youth) join the army of unemployed. Indeed, the South Africa government plans to increase support for small businesses and co-operatives via new academy and advisory board, and by introducing legislation that makes it easier for South Africans to run co-operatives. Besides the government initiative’s, there is a Christian magazine called” Real Woman” that hosted some workshops to assist every unemployed South Africa women. The aim of workshop is to empowering women through skills development programmes. They were going from zero to success.