Minister of Small Business Development Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has officially opened the Kwa-Ntozonke Market at Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. More than R11 million has been invested in the development of businesses in this market with a total of 100 entrepreneurs benefitting.Ndabeni-Abrahams says they will also ensure that the businesses are sustainable.
” This building, Kwa-Ntozonke market is an old building established in 1976, then it tells you that, like any other child of 1976 is an adult now you can see there are certain things you can’t survive. So, it was leaking, the infrastructure was bad and this is where we come in to say let’s renovate to make sure it meets the demands of today, for the traders of today. There was no electricity because then they were using manual machines.