{"id":62957,"date":"2015-06-01T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/hub-promotes-easier-access-to-finance-20150527\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:29:17","slug":"hub-promotes-easier-access-to-finance-20150527","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/hub-promotes-easier-access-to-finance-20150527\/","title":{"rendered":"Hub promotes easier access to finance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"f184d41a\" contenteditable=\"false\">\n<div class=\"slide\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3571\/743068c9ed154fc0a86398922294ce50.jpg\" title=\": \nMario Green, vice-chairman Weskus Sakekamer, (seated) with (from left) Shandr\u00e9 Summers (WCBDC), Elmondo Paulse (Transnet), Renier Grosch (G3 Group) and Helena Schoeman (Sefa).\n\n                                                               \" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4a28a9d0496f48b995bb6981e64b4c95.jpg\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">:<br>\nMario Green, vice-chairman Weskus Sakekamer, (seated) with (from left) Shandr\u00e9 Summers (WCBDC), Elmondo Paulse (Transnet), Renier Grosch (G3 Group) and Helena Schoeman (Sefa).<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Local partnerships is one way to help ensure local businesses benefit from the new developments happening in Saldanha Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly established West Coast Business Development Centre\/ Transnet Enterprise Development Hub in Saldanha is an example of one such partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Thursday, the Weskus Sakekamer heard that through this partnership access to options for business financing has been made considerably easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, direct access for business owners to the revenue service (SARS), \u201cmeaning a trip to Cape Town for this is no longer necessary,\u201d explained Shandr\u00e9 Summers, general manager of the WCBDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Direct access to the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) was also incorporated in creating a \u201cone-stop shop\u201d for local business, said Elmondo Paulse from Transnet, tasked with enterprise and supply development in the Saldanha Bay area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transnet, as part of their Market Demand Strategy, is planning to spend billions of rands on the West Coast alone, and Paulse says he wants to develop local suppliers to ensure a win-win situation for all involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said under the government\u2019s Operation Phakisa (\u201churry up\u201d) about seven to eight billion rand has been budgeted towards infrastructure development in the Saldanha Bay area and the new industrial development zone (IDZ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe West Coast is going to change, so we must change. We must change collectively and take ownership of these changes,\u201d said Paulse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Referring to a previous enquiry from a white business owner, Paulse said black-owned business has to be accommodated, but white business owners need not fear that only the former will receive contracts. \u201cTogether we must make it work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hub offers access to business finance through the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (Sefa), represented in the hub by Helena Schoeman, and the G3 Group (Renier\u00ad Grosch).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sefa offers business loans of between R50 000 and R5 million at an interest rate of 14% (12,5% in special cases). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Financial services group, G3 Group, offers loans and grants from R1 million upwards, but subject to strict requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is our West Coast. For too long we have allowed that it be taken from us. The next generation will hold it against us if we don\u2019t act now. 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