EKURHULENI
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Presentation
TO
SMME OPPORTUNITY ROADSHOW
24 May 2016
Jorro Segabutla DH: Community Enterprise Development
16/06/28 1 Presenta on Overview
• Enterprise Development • Incuba on • Innova on • Street Trading • Business Licensing • Township Economies Enterprise Development Mentorship Programme s regards. Procurement for required equipment’s to opera onalise • Panel bea ng the centre has been finalised. The centre will be fully opera onal in May 2015. The func ons of the centre will be to train on how to • The city has appointed a mentor to skill 25 local panel beaters and advance their growth in the industry. This mentorship programme will tender, provide tender advice, and run workshops of supply chain regula ons and advice on private sector buying. take six month and will end in June 2015. The panel beaters a ended the session on a fortnightly basis where they get business coaching • The provide workshops in partnership with na onal government, from the Mentor and other special sessions with industry including provincial and municipali es doing prac cal’s in their facili es. • Target of 25 service providers per sessions monthly. Procurement • Light Manufacturing opportuni es will be received from July 2015 buyers will be displayed • Another group of 25 light manufacturers around Ekurhuleni are on the board for service providers to see. The Feedback consulta ons a ending mentorship programme specifically on manufacturing. The will be done on Tuesdays /once a week. The Se ng up of the office mentorship programme will take six month as well. The idea is to take will involve relevant departments internally and will make the tender opera onal light manufacturing companies and assist them with advice copies be available for free. compliance issues, mee ng prescribed standards and enhance quality Access to Market assurance issues. • The department has iden fied opportune markets for SME and • General Entrepreneurship mentoring coopera ves such as the supplier day, exhibi ons and departmental contracts where obliga on for buying from local entrepreneurs are • Forty (40) of the SMEs on Ekurhuleni are included in the enforced. The department has facilitated for 35 SME to a end the Entrepreneurship mentorship programme to assist with simple aspect of “how to run your business”. Issues such as cash flow management, Denel Supplier day which was held on 5 March 2015 and it will do so personnel management, payroll market and promo on and day to with the PRASA/GIBELA Supplier day which will be held on the 12 day running of business. May 2015. The department is at the stage where it will finalise the procurement of the Service provider to assist with the facilita on and Access to Finance securing of stall at trading floor of the Rand Show in NASREC for • Given the impediments by legisla on for the city not to provide twenty 20 SMEs taking place in April 2015 and also the ESKOM funding directly to SME and Coopera ves as grant and loans. The city Exhibi on in Coca-Cola Dome; Randburg in September 2015. have leverages on other people’s money to support SME financial through the Ekurhuleni Business facilita on network. The city is able to facilitate funding to individual SME through support from ANGLO GOLD ZIMELE, ABSA Small Business Fund and Small Enterprise Funding Agency. Tender Advice Centre • Office is already designated at the EBFN to assist with Tender Advice. Two interns are allocated for this func on and are due for training in Enterprise Development
SEDA Ekurhuleni Branch – 100 mentored and mentees SMME’s • Since SEDA opened offices in November they have achieved a Business Licensing and Compliance lot in different places through mentorship programmes. They • The department has finalised the revised street trading by-laws have seen 135 clients to date. They help clients to register and which will be looked at by legal and be submi ed to council for then assess them and take them to training. They have assisted approval. The department has established an ad-hoc business 50 clients thus far with training. They have 26 interven ons licencing implementa on unit in conjunc on with collabora on and commi ed 750 000 on average of 30 000 per interven on. CCAs’ such Boksburg, Kempton Park and Nigel to assist with The jobs created and success stories all that we need and it’s assessing, gran ng and issuing of licenses. The department has difficult to find those. Without solid partnership they cannot bought more card machines to augment the two it previously create jobs from those businesses they have. They have had. These machines assist with the street trading permits. started segmen ng people according to gender and age because it will help to keep record. Business Place • The business place is at the heart of the centre and is assis ng with pre-assessment of visitors at EBFN and referrals. Conduc ng internal stakeholders engagement. Informa on Dissemina on • The department con nue with its programme to run workshops and seminars and part of empowering SME with informa on. Speakers from SARS, NEF, and IDC etc. are invited from me to me to present on their offering and how to comply. The following seminar and workshops were held in the first two quarters of this financial year;- – 100 disabled – 200 contractor development program – 100 youth unit – 100 department SMME’s INCUBATION PROGRAMME
The Incuba on is an intense SME training programme involving the industry and exper se in a respec ve field. The programme includes close monitoring of knowledge, growth and general progression of the enterprise. The city of Ekurhuleni has established three incuba on centres and is in the process to set-up two more in this financial. The following are the incuba on centres that are established.
Ekurhuleni Jewellery Project • The Ekurhuleni jewellery project is an incuba on setup through a partnership between Rand Refinery, Mintek Ekurhuleni City and SEDA. The purpose of this incuba on is to enhance beneficia on in metal and stone to produce good quality jewellery. To do this the incuba on has to produce new quality entrants into the industry and teach them to manufacture such jewels and to comprehend latest technology and high-tech equipment’s. The incuba on has 20 incubates within it facili es.
Lepharo Base Metal Incuba on • The Lepharo Base Metal Incuba on was ini ally established to incubate businesses to manufacture base metals such as Brass, Aluminium etc. and to produce components with these base metals. Lepharo acquired more exper se in running of incuba on centres and it was necessary to diversify product. At the present moment Lepharo has 51 incubates and are showing sign of success. • It is this reason that the EMM considers to extend the partnership with LEPHARO to op mise the use of industrial Hives to upli the tenant SMME and to implement proper monitoring and evalua on systems. The city has implemented the Shared Industry Produc on Facility project on behalf of the province through the Provisional Grant. Before then, the City has already been running the Industrial Hives Programme to support coopera ves with the working facility, machinery and equipment’s.
Construc on Incuba on Spartan Industrial Park already Thirty Three (33) incubates has been recruited and training at the Centre. • The Ekurhuleni Seda Construc on Incubator (SCI) was established in May 2014, however, the SCI Ekurhuleni Branch relocated to new premises located at number 68 Rigger Street, Spartan, Kempton Park. Renova ons and customiza on of the premises were assumed in on the third week of May. The recruitment of contractors started during the month of December 2014 whereby a group of outreach program was achieved ranging from CIDB grading 1-2. A second round of recruitment took place in April/May where the mainstream group has to be secured.
Chemical Incuba on will be set up in Tembisa Business Park and Thokoza(Project in Pipeline) • Chemin submi ed a proposal to Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality for the establishment of a Chemical Incuba on Programme. The incuba on programme will entail the establishment of two manufacturing hubs to be located at the Thokoza Fabrica on Laboratory and Sedibeng Industrial Hive Centre located in Tembisa. The main ac vity at these hubs will be the manufacturing of chemical detergents, cosme cs, hair care products and perfumes. The manufacturing of coa ngs will be established if and when incubates are iden fied. INNOVATION PROGRAMME
The goal of the FabLabs in Ekurhuleni is to provide previously disadvantaged communi es with access to modern digital manufacturing facili es with a The economic development department rapid prototyping capability as a means of crossing established two fabrica on laboratories in Thokoza the digital divide while encouraging high level and Tembisa and will be comple ng the research and development and impac ng on establishment of the third one in Tsakane by June crea vity, innova on and 21st Century Skills 2015. development. The proven benefits of FabLabs from developing countries around the world have been that it: • Create jobs and help poor communi es to fight poverty, • Build a high value-add manufacturing focus in their locali es, • Facilitate the convergence of 1st world and 2nd world economies in their locali es, • Develop human resources and build cross-cu ng skills, • Facilitate the development of smart industries by encouraging joint research and community interac on, • Develop and support compe ve small enterprises, and • Provide an enabling infrastructure for innovators. INNOVATION PROGRAMME
Fablab Conference in Boston in ‘15
Hos ng of SA Innova on Conference 2016
Innova on Hub
Alloca on of Three Offices to the Innova on Hub in Tembisa Business Park
Strengthening of Rela onship with CSIR and VUT TOWNSHIP ENTERPRISE HUBS The department has embarked in a programme to develop township hubs in support of the envisaged township economies development strategy. The hubs are centres where small businesses are supported to engage in a frui ul economic ac vity. This may be manifested by providing trading space, incuba on facili es, shared industry produc on facili es, light manufacturing workshop, business networks plat forms and mentorship or handholding sessions. The following are the hubs that were built by the department:-
•The Tembisa Business Park is a modern facility built in 870 Thami Mnyele Street in Mqantsa sec on in Tembisa. This facility has 36 units suitable for both office and Tembisa Business trade. Some of the interven on ini a ve provided by the municipality such as Chemical Incuba on and Fabrica on laboratory will take place at this facility and Park occupa on is facilitated and some of the following Hubs find home in this facility.
•The Thokoza traders market is built next to Phola Park. It is the facility build to provide decent trading infrastructure to the informal traders. There are 21 Small Businesses Thokoza Traders outlets that have been built at this facility one even suitable for le ng to established Market retailers such as pick n pay, checkers or renowned wholesaler.
•The Duduza Resource centre next to the new CCA and police sta on is currently being refurbished for conversion into a hub. The centre is currently being u lised mainly for Duduza Resource social and recrea on in its current form. The department is refurbishing this facility to give it a modern look, to re-arrange the parking facility and to plug in economic Centre ac vity and business support.
•This facility will be built in Barcelona in this financial year. The geo-technical assessment is being done. The architectural design and plans has been completed. Daveyton Barcelona Construc on work has begun. Traders Market Thanks.