Rescue for Mpumalanga’s small traders who don’t qualify for relief funding

Mpumalanga’s small traders who do not meet the Covid-19 coronavirus relief fund requirements should not despair because the province will soon begin a process to identify them and come to their rescue.

Finance and Economic Development MEC Pat Ngomane said that his department would appoint a company to identify the traders, who are mostly making too little money to be registered for tax or operate as registered entities.

“The research company will collect all the information on informal traders in the province even those making as little as R30 a day. We must know who they are, where they are and what they do because most of them do not meet the criteria that has been set to qualify for relief funding,” Ngomane said.