Letter to the Editor | Making small, local businesses stronger

Phil Murray Grootbos Foundation

2020 has taught us to look at our own place in the world differently. Not only have we been challenged to think about our families, neighbours, communities and countrymen differently, but also our place on the African continent and our place on the globe.

Grootbos Foundation has, in the past, empowered people to become entrepreneurial small business owners in the local economy through providing free training and dispersing seed funding. But lockdown regulations threatened to collapse these small enterprises, many of which were trained to source locally, strive towards sustainability and contribute to the green economy. Rebuilding small businesses, many of which are female-owned, allows communities to re-root so that new growth and recovery can take place.

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