The low-cost way of ‘creating large employment’

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A tech company preparing to open branches in Europe, localised businesses, where ‘this obsession with scale can be a constraint’, and the magic of blended financing – SA SME Fund CEO Ketso Gordhan on what’s happening in the small business sphere, and how government can get more economic bang for the taxpayer’s buck.

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