Cabinet continues to issue assurances to the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) sector, saying that the development thereof remains of key importance to government. Paramount, according to a statement by Prime Minister Dlamini, would be creating business access to finance and markets, along with empowering the youth and women with entrepreneurial skills. This declaration was accompanied by an undertaking that government would “intently build strong relations with the private sector, providing the enabling environment to ensure its sustained growth to enhance job creation and innovation”.
Also disclosed was the imminent launch of a new model, known as State Business Relations (SBR), to ensure regular, open, structured, timely and detailed information exchange between the State and Business, the efficacy of which hinged on the business sector’s willingness to commit. It was emphasised that there should be no difference between the private and public sectors, because “we are all working towards a similar goal of improving the lives of Emaswati, and government believes that the SBR will remove clutter and/or vacuum between us…we welcome constructive feedback from the business sector, and undertake to do the same”.
