Friday, July 18, 2008

What do we need?

South Africans abroad are involved in working for employers as well as running their own businesses. Ideas, expertise, funding, access to markets, outsourcing of manufacture, technology are amongst some of the things that we could use. People don't really need hand outs as they are not sustainable.

We need to feed people while we teach them how to fish. One of the key things is the development of the small business which will entail equipping people with skills as artisans, etc. and also to teach them business skills to enable them to successfully run their own operations with viability.

Interesting ideas abound and sometimes the most silly sounding things have resulted in business opportunities. However, I want this to result in both small scale and large scale ventures.

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