KwaDukuza offers lifeline to informal traders hit by pandemic
KwaDukuza's confident its new relief fund will help prop up struggling informal traders, whose businesses have been dealt a severe blow by the Covid-19 pandemic.
It's launched the Covid-19 Informal Traders Relief Fund and LED Start-Up programme that's set to benefit SMME operators as well.
The municipality's Sipho Mkhize says they've witnessed, firsthand, how the outbreak and subsequent restrictions have shut the doors of businesses.
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He says the aim of the program is to help those in the informal sector put food back on the table.
"On the other hand, we had six beneficiaries of the LED Start-Up programme, so in essence, the KwaDukuza Municipality spends around half a million rand to assist emerging businesses."
One hundred and seventy informal traders and a handful of SMME operators have been identified so far.
