/ 9 December 1999

SMALL BUSINESS BOOSTED BY N4

ABOUT 13000 people have been employed by small, medium and micro enterprises working on the construction of the R2-billion Maputo Corridor toll road since last year. A survey last month by Silulu Investment Services to gauge the success of the programme, found that 70% of the some 300 SMMEs on the N4 were based in Mpumalanga. It also found that they were all from previously disadvantaged backgrounds, and more than 15% of people working in SMMEs are women.