Black Pages offers guide to BEE

This South African directory of 100% black-owned businesses showcases more than 1000 black-owned businesses from all nine provinces and aims to become the procurement practitioner's definitive directory for sourcing such enterprises.

“This publication is part of the realisation of my lifelong dream of developing black businesses. We believe that it will help grow small businesses and in turn stimulate the economy as well as assist big businesses with their procurement process. While this initiative is a specific intervention for SMMEs, it will ultimately create jobs as the SMMEs become more successful and employ more people. It is my hope that it will play a part in addressing South Africa's high rate of unemployment,” says Ramaphosa, executive chairperson of the Shanduka Group,

The 50 000 printed copies of Black Pages will be distributed with the Finweek edition of May 13, currently on sale countrywide and is also available on line at www.shandukablackpages.co.za.