Stop the vendor saga and local business opportunities

South African Civic National Organisation (SANCO) Sub-region of Emalahleni, after engaging with local entrepreneurs of Emalahleni on specific corporate challenges faced within the vicinity of local poor distribution on corporate projects, contracts, tenders, RFQ’s, BBBEE transformation opportunities and vendor access being barricaded for the black owned emerging companies its unacceptable.

As SANCO sub-region Emalahleni we feel like the vendor process within the mining sector and other related parastatals like Transnet, Evraz Highveld, Samancor and the rest is safeguarded internally to enrich the richer, protect the interest of the current established service providers and it has favoured systems in place to prevent newly black owned emerging companies from accessing vendor numbers and lucrative business opportunities.

We demand improved BBBEE upliftment and transformation systems to enhance and empower our local entrepreneurs in order to eradicate unemployment and poverty by creating job opportunities on a grass route level by relaying concrete businesses to the emerging black owned companies that are in good standing.

Our concern as SANCO sub-region is radically based on the unfair requirements and policies that are set by the mining houses and parastatals supply chain offices that are not even situated within the vicinity of this problematic air pollution in Emalahleni that is killing a number of people each year with no socio economic expenditure invested in the health, business, labour and education programmes.

SANCO sub-region condemns the procuring of goods and services from companies that are outside Emalahleni and our neighbouring small towns. We also condemn and say stop it to black women, youth and disabled individuals that are safeguarding the investments and, interests of the apartheid established companies, by fronting as directors in order to simply comply as black owned companies and dominate local business opportunities.

Stop it and open up the vendor opportunities for emerging good standing black owned companies for them to equally get fair corporate and lucrative businesses.