A ray of light for local smaller businesses
Thusong Service Centre held an open day to support small local businesses.
Mogale City Local Municipality in partnership with Government Communication hosted the Thusong Service Centre Open Day on Friday, 22 September at the Chief Mogale Community Hall in Kagiso.
The purpose of the open day was to inform the community about programmes and services offered at the centres.
The open day was conducted as part of the Annual Thusong Service Centre Week commemorated by government nationwide from 18–22 September under the theme ‘The Year of OR Tambo – Advancing Small Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMME) at Thusong Service Centres’.
In recognition of this, local SMMEs based in Mogale City were invited to be part of the open day to showcase their services and products to members of the community.
“The Thusong Centres are created by government with the intention of bringing government services closer to the people.
As Mogale City, we also created a platform for local business to occupy space at the Thusong Centre, thus making it easier for them to operate in the communities they live in,” said Nomvula Mjuza, Social Development Manager for the Mogale City Local Municipality.
Besides profiling local SMMEs to the community during the open day, stakeholders from Mogale City Local Economic Development (LED) and National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) were also invited to come and provide information on services they offer to help improve their businesses. Through his presentation, Benjamin Selogile from the LED office informed SMMEs about how they can assist in enterprise support and development.
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“As an office, we encourage people to use our services and stop travelling long distances to register their businesses. Those services are offered at Mogale City LED. We also coach people on how to write a business plan and to identify weaknesses in their organisations that can lead to failure,” he said.
People were also informed that the LED offices can also link businesses with organisations that provide funding to SMMEs.
Lead Change Developments is one of the small businesses based at the Thusong Service Centre that provides free computer training to people living with disabilities.
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“Our aim in being part of this event was to showcase our services and eliminate the stigma associated with disability,” said Nompumelelo Mayo, one of the administrators at the company.
“We are mostly donor funded. As young people, we will definitely make use of services from NYDA and LED to make sure that we apply for funding that will help our business grow.”
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