Roundtable on Public Procurement and Black Entrepreneurship in South Africa

Roundtable

4 May 2021

Zoom

11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Last year February, MISTRA launched a publication on Beyond Tenderpreneurship: Rethinking Black Business and Economic Empowerment. In addition to MISTRA’s submission to National Treasury on the Procurement Bill, we plan to host a follow up discussion on the use of public procurement to achieve structural reform and market restructuring in the broad political economy of South Africa on the 4^th of May 2021.

The objectives of the roundtable are to:

deliberate on the links between black entrepreneurship support, local economic development, and economic restructuring;
debate ways to develop market intelligence for black-owned informal businesses and SMMEs;
identify pathways to informal and formal business success in the country for young entrepreneurs;
discuss pathways for job creation through entrepreneurship; and
debate the recently published Public Procurement Bill.

The discussion will be led by editors of the publication Ayabonga Cawe and Khwezi Mabasa.