29 August 2007
Day one: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
08h00 to 14h00: Exhibition set-up; Arrival and cocktail drinks
15h00 to 17h00: Delegates accreditation; Cocktail reception and opening of the
exhibition programme
18h00 to 21h00: Delegates Welcome and Provincial Expectations - Summit
Programme Host: MEC Collins Chabane, Limpopo Economic Development Environment
and Tourism
Cocktail and networking
Dress code: Traditional
Day two: Thursday, 30 August 2007
08h00 to 09h00: Registration/networking/exhibition
Plenary opening session, Chair Thami Mazwai, Co-Chair Imani, Mr Van
Niekerk
09h00 to 09h15: Welcoming remarks: Executive Mayor, Mr Younus Lorgat of
Warmbaths City Council
09h20 to 09h30: Setting the summit Scene, Provincial Premier, Sello
Moloto
09h35 to 11h00: Opening keynote address and small business review, Minister of
Trade and Industry Mandisi Mpahlwa
11h00 to 11h30: Tea
11h00 to 12h00: Media briefing
Plenary session: Embracing challenges facing small-micro medium enterprises
(SMMEs), Chair: Limdev CEO Stan Mathabatha
11h30 to 12h00: An overview of the small business sector confidence and
performance Africa Growth Research, Professor N Biekpe
12h00 to 12h30: Private sector models for enterprise development, an analysis
of Small Business Benefits from the implementation of Black Economic
Empowerment Codes, Empowerdex, Mr V Jack
12h30 to 13h00: Questions to the panel of speakers
Comments: Ministerial small scale industries- India: H.E Mahabir Prasad
13h15 to 14h30: Lunch
14h30 to 16h30: 30 minutes presentation: Breakaway sessions: Accelerating SMME
development
Breakaway one: Defining South Africa's regulatory impact assessment
agenda
Chair: Ms Pinky Baloyi, South African Revenue Services (SARS) and Co-Chair
Professor Mahabir, Council Member
Presentation one: The analysis of "red tape" constraints and regulatory costs
for small enterprises, Simon Dagut SBP
Presentation two: Policy on Labour, regulations skills, Department of
Labour
Presentation three: Initiatives on reviewing Business Regulations, National
Treasury, Fundi Tshazibana
30 minutes, questions to the panel of presenters and floor inputs
Breakaway two: Promoting Entrepreneurship: Chair: Jill Sawyers, Co-Chair
Council Member Mr N Gasa
Presentation one: Benchmark model for centres of entrepreneurship, Professor
Fred Ahwireng-Obeng, Wits Entrepreneurship Centre
Presentation two: Strategic approaches for Small Enterprise incubators, HP
Kumar, National Small Industries Corporation Ltd (NSIC) Partnership
Presentation three: Youth Enterprise Development, Thousand by Thousand
Programme as a case study, Western Cape Provincial Department
30 minutes, questions to the panel of presenters and floor inputs
Breakaway three: Developing markets for small enterprises: Chair: Fantas
Mobu, Co-Chair Council Member, Ms M Letsoalo
Presentation one: Trade and Investment South Africa, National Export Strategy
presents opportunities for small enterprises, Department of Trade and Industry,
Riann Leroux
Presentation two: Building small enterprise scale of production and supply
chains through business clusters and co-operative networks, a sector approach,
Mr Stegan Segal, Clotex
Presentation three: Information technology approaches, building linkages
between small enterprises and services markets, Internet Business Solutions
Group (IBSG) International case study, Dr Rivers, IBGS International
30 minutes for questions to the panel of presenters and floor inputs
Breakaway four: New approaches in response to the small business finance
challenge: Chair and Co-Chair Council Member, Yvonne Radinku
Presentation one: The South African micro-enterprise sector analysis, Ms
Xoliswe Bebula, Mazwe Consultant
Presentation two: Government practices for small business finance, Mr John
Mwaniki, Technonet Africa
Presentation three: Private Sector Response to the financing challenge, Mr Cas
Coovadia, Banking Council
30 minutes for questions to the panel of presenters and floor inputs
16h30: Close of breakaway sessions
16h30 to 17h30: Tea and exhibitions
19h00 to 22h00: Gala dinner
Welcome note: Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Elizabeth Thabethe
Key speaker: South African Women Entrepreneurs' Network (Sawen) Limpopo, Woman
Entrepreneur
Day three: Friday, 31 August 2007
First economy and second economy linkages
08h30 to 09h00: Framework for directing policy towards sustainable employment
creation, poverty alleviation and rural enterprise development as a basis for
sustainable employment, Professor Charlotte du Toit, University of
Pretoria
09h00 to 09h30: Public and private sector interventions for rural enterprise
and sustainable growth, Limpopo, Head of Department, Shibambu
09h30 to 10h00: Questions to the panel of presenters and floor inputs
10h00 to 10h30: Tea
10h30 to 12h45: Commissions' report back and discussion
Panel of all presenters, commissions: Questions, comments, inputs,
answers
12h45 to 13h15: Sum up and vote of thanks by Tshediso Matona, Director-General
of the Department of Trade and Industry
13h15 to 14h00: Lunch
Departure
Issued by: Department of Trade and Industry
29 August 2007
