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Absa's helping hand to entrepreneurs

Absa has launched an enterprise development group and Business Report says this unit will focus on emerging enterprises, entrepreneurs and job creation. The new unit is a sub-section of Absa's Business Markets.

22 Feb 2012

Absa's helping hand to entrepreneurs

Marcel de Klerk, head of the division says that entrepreneurs and small businesses have been proven to be the primary creator of jobs in any economy and may help to alleviate the jobs crisis in the country where 50% of the youth are unemployed.

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