Question NW2399 to the Minister of Small Business Development

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27 October 2017 - NW2399

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Kruger, Mr HC to ask the Minister of Small Business Development

What are the full details of the (a) turnover, (b) profitability and (c) number of jobs created through her department’s National Gazelles Programme for its 2015-16 financial year intake for each of the 40 selected small-, medium- and micro-sized enterprises that participated?

Reply:

(a) Turnover and (b) Profitability

The information provided in this response comprises the performance in percentages of all companies participating in the Gazelles programme (grouped by sectors). This response meets what the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) and the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) can issue as public information limited by provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). POPIA disempowers the Department and the implementing Agency on reporting on what may be viewed as a public domain, individual companies’ information which include profits and turnovers, release of such would have to be issued with written consent from respective companies.

The turnover and profitability figures fluctuate from month to month. Noted factors that contributed to the negative growth are as follows:

  • Cyclical products that have low turnover during certain seasons and pick up thereafter.
  • Product mix, especially with companies in the construction sector (short term contract more profitable than long term contracts).
  • Government business which tends to peek in February-March of each year.
  • Companies not always updating their information on the system on time.

The table below depicts turnover and profitability figures per sector grouping all 40 companies for period April 2016 to March 2017.

a) Turnover results per sector grouping of the 40 companies in the programme see the link below

http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/RNW2399Turnover-171026.pdf

b) Profitability

Profitability results per sector grouping of the 40 companies in the programme see the link below

http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/RNW2399Profitable-171026.pdf

c) Staff numbers = Jobs per company

As reported before, staff numbers have increased by 4% from 1068 to 1112 for 9 months to December 2016. The table below depicts employee numbers for each company.

SECTOR

COMPANY

Fulltime

Part time

Total

Fulltime

Part time

Total

Agriculture and Agro-Processing

Comessa Food Services

36

1

37

36

1

37

 

Fawakhe Trading cc

3

0

3

4

1

5

 

Roses for u

24

0

24

24

0

24

Construction

F-F Engineering (AIRCONDITIONING)

38

4

42

48

2

50

 

Lakeshore Trading 102

30

68

98

30

69

99

 

Ordained Trading

15

28

43

15

28

43

 

TCM Developments (Pty) Ltd

73

0

73

73

0

73

Energy and Green Economy

Conretype (Pty) Ltd

   

0

   

0

 

Cybronix (Pty) Ltd

2

0

2

2

0

2

 

iGreens

4

1

5

4

0

4

 

Gridbow Engineers & Technical Services

10

15

25

10

15

25

 

Ugesi Africa Consulting

6

2

8

6

2

8

Health and Bio-Sciences

Deline Investments(Pty) Ltd

1

0

1

38

0

38

 

Natural Medicinal Services

8

1

9

8

1

9

 

Omy Naidoo Pty Ltd

3

1

4

3

1

4

Information and Communication Technologies

Bayajula (Pty) Ltd

16

135

151

16

136

152

 

Digital Republic Consulting (Pty) Ltd

15

0

15

14

1

15

 

Lan Telecoms

28

6

34

28

1

35

 

Memeza Shout (Pty) Ltd

5

0

5

6

8

14

 

Pretend cc

   

0

   

0

 

Wam technology cc

21

0

21

21

0

21

 

Xspark

4

1

5

6

0

6

Management and Consulting

Futurent Consulting solutions(Pty) Ltd

9

0

9

9

0

9

Manufacturing

Amphiguard Brickyard

55

0

55

55

 

55

 

Buttercup trading 47cc

4

0

4

4

2

6

 

Bronscor

11

0

11

 

10

0

 

ECO Furniture Designs cc

27

3

30

27

3

30

 

Fred Footwear

50

0

50

50

5

55

 

National Adhesive Manufactures cc

9

0

9

9

0

9

 

Prothane Industrail cc

22

0

22

31

0

31

 

Umzungulu Windows (Pty) Ltd

26

4

30

37

0

37

Mining, Metals and Engineering

Brimis Engineering

10

0

10

10

2

12

 

Modi Mining cc

152

2

154

152

2

154

Tourism

Tzaneen Country Lodge cc

63

0

63

39

0

39

 

Vaalnest Bout Hotel

16

0

16

11

0

11

Transport and Logistics

DC Mobile Forklift mechanics

   

0

   

0

 

 Total

   

1 068

   

1 112

These numbers will be updated when a second benchmarking exercise is taken in November 2017.

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