Exploring the potential market for informal small, medium and micro enterprise (SSME) transport operators in rural areas - a case study of the KwaMhlanga community

dc.contributor.authorKekana, M.E.
dc.contributor.otherSouthern African Transport Conference (28th : 2009 : Pretoria, South Africa)
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-19T10:27:29Z
dc.date.available2009-11-19T10:27:29Z
dc.date.issued2009-07-06
dc.descriptionThis paper was transferred from the original CD ROM created for this conference. The material was published using Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Technology. The original CD ROM was produced by Document Transformation Technologies Postal Address: PO Box 560 Irene 0062 South Africa. Tel.: +27 12 667 2074 Fax: +27 12 667 2766 E-mail: nigel@doctech URL: http://www.doctech.co.zaen_US
dc.description.abstractPaper presented at the 28th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 6 - 9 July 2009 "Sustainable Transport", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn South Africa, small businesses are an important ingredient for income generation in the rural economy. However, the ability of small businesses to grow and reach new markets is hampered by ageing infrastructures, low- and unskilled labour, lack of business knowledge and insufficient capital. Furthermore, transportation of goods in rural areas is a complex and costly business. This paper is a brief introduction to the rural economy in which small informal rural transport operates in the KwaMhlanga community. The paper focuses on informal operators who are classified as survivalist entrepreneurs, whose turnover falls well below the levels required for Value Added Tax (VAT) registration in South Africa. The characteristics of the survivalist market are low barriers to entry, highly competitive market, unskilled labour and limited capital requirements. Increasing emphasis has been placed on the development and promotion of the rural accessibility and small businesses in South Africa. Although the South African Government's Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) has initiatives to support and promote the development of Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs), the dti finds it difficult to gather and process information for planning purposes, such as the number of small informal business and the kind of services provided by these operators from rural areas. This could be attributed to the unwillingness of informal business operators to participate in surveys resulting in limited information being published in the public domain about the existence and operations of informal businesses in rural areas. The aim of this paper is to summarise the challenges SMMEs operating in informal sector based on field work done in and around KwaMhlanga and reasons for their existence.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKekana, ME 2009,'Exploring the potential market for informal small, medium and micro enterprise (SSME) transport operators in rural areas - a case study of the KwaMhlanga community', Paper presented to the 28th Annual Southern African Transport Conference, South Africa, 6-9 July. p. 373-381en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781920017392
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/11950
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDocument Transformation Technologiesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSATC 2009
dc.rightsUniversity of Pretoriaen
dc.subjectSustainable transporten
dc.subjectRural economyen
dc.subjectInfrastructureen
dc.subjectUnskilled labouren
dc.subjectKwaMhlangaen
dc.subject.lcshTransportation
dc.subject.lcshTransport services -- South Africa -- Congresses
dc.subject.lcshSmall business
dc.subject.lcshInfrastructure (Economics) -- South Africa -- Kwamhlanga
dc.titleExploring the potential market for informal small, medium and micro enterprise (SSME) transport operators in rural areas - a case study of the KwaMhlanga communityen
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