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BUSINESS: KHAYELITSHA STREAMING AHEAD IN DIGITAL AGE
Partnership rears hope MANDLA MAHASHE
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magine using a cellphone appliication to check whether yourr nearest spaza shop has your fa avourite grocery items. Innovations like these could d soon be part of our daily lives folllowing a partnership between the e South African Spaza Shops Co-op perative (Sassco) and the Barn in n Khayelitsha. The Barn is a business incubatorr whose main objectives are the de evelopment of enterprises in the arrea and their integration into the e digital sphere. Sassco is comprised of more than n 300 spaza shop owners from Khaye elitsha and are looking to expanding g into various other neighbourrhoods. According to Sassco chairman n, Bongani Vakele, the partnership p with the Barn has been in the e works since the beginning of the e year. “As part of this agreement, ourr members will be trained in busiiness management and operationss, to be able to run their businessess professionally. This relationship, we hope, willl help in providing solutions forr some of the problems faced by y small business owners,”said Vake ele. He added that Sassco was formed d to create opportunities for sustain nable economic development in Khayelitsha and other areas through the formation of strategic partnerships. “Since the Barn is also about the economic and social development in the area, it was agreed that it would be mutually beneficial if the two parties teamed to work on various projects,”he said. Vakele said that they had just fewer than 400 members but the number was ever increasing.
The Barns Chris Vermuelen and Sassco’ chairman Bongani Vaskele sign the partnership agreement between the two organisations as other Sacco members watch on. PHOTO: MBONGISENI MASEKO “We are aiming to have 4000 members within the local townships and we are confident as more people are joining the co-operative,” said Vakala. He noted that informal businesses had a huge buying power and that they should used this to benefit their businesses. Chris Vermeulen, enterprise de-
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“Everything is being didtalised these days and if your business is struggling to adopt, it will be hard to do a catch up, as others are integrating. It also important as the technology often comes with solutions to business and we are hoping to have that sort of impact on their business,” said Vermuelen. .
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