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04 August 2021
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The Centre for Gender and Africa Studies is proud to host Prof Gabriele Griffin from Uppsala University as the speaker for the 2021 Biennial Humanities and Gendered Worlds Lecture.
Date: 11 August 2021
Time: 18:00
Platform: Vimeo
More about our speaker:
Prof Griffin is from Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is the coordinator of the Nordforsk-funded centre of excellence, Nordwit, and editor of the ‘Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities’ series (Edinburgh University Press). Her research interests centre on contemporary women’s writing; women’s cultural production; feminist theatre; and writing diaspora. She has also written extensively on women’s/gender studies as a discipline, as well as on research methods. She has co-ordinated EU-funded research on more sociological topics, such as women’s employment and methodological issues.
Profiling of small businesses discussed
2010-06-03
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From the left are: Mr Christoff van der Merwe, businessman from Pretoria, Ms Jackie Ntshingila, Provincial Manager of SEDA in the Free State, Prof. Tienie Crous, Dean: Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the UFS, Mr Barry Chang from Mijona International in Bloemfontein and Mr Hendrik van der Merwe, businessman from Pretoria.
Photo: Stephen Collett |
“We need some kind of innovation to help small businesses in the Free State grow to their full potential.” These were the words of Ms Jackie Ntshingila, Provincial Manager of the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) in the Free State at a breakfast presented by the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences of the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein.
The faculty and SEDA presented the breakfast after identifying the need to profile small business development agencies and to get the role-players in the province together to discuss the development of small business enterprises.
“It is important that we start to profile small agencies in the province and a university is a good neutral ground to start an initiative like this,” said Prof. Tienie Crous, Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the UFS.
“Small business development agencies are working in silos, there are fragmented reporting lines, a duplication of services and the service is rotated among the same group of small, medium and micro enterprises,” said Ms Ntshingila.
“Students do not see themselves as job creators and entrepreneurs are not contributing optimally to the gross domestic product of the province. Job creation opportunities are also not efficiently reported and there is a competitive approach amongst different business associations,” she said.
Ms Ntshingila proposed a couple solutions: “Establish an electronic database, do government reporting through a systems or database administrator and make a presentation to government for adequate funding for these projects,” she said.
At the breakfast it was proposed that the small business development agencies will now be identified and follow-up meetings will be arranged by the faculty and SEDA.
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2 June 2010