The Black Management Forum BMF has sounded the alarm on South Africas deepening inequalities, as leaders from business, government, labour, and civil society gather in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape for the organisations 2025 Policy Conference.
The forum is pushing for urgent action to shift the country from exclusion to meaningful economic participation. With unemployment stubbornly high, poverty entrenched in provinces like the Eastern Cape, and the Government of National Unity under growing pressure, Black Movement Forum President Mpho Motsei says it is time to encourage entrepreneurship, focusing on marginalised groups.
The economy of any other country is dependent on entrepreneurship. Its dependent on small businesses because those are the ones that can be able to employ as many people as possible. So, its for us to train our people to think about owning their own businesses because it will give them the opportunity to employ as many people as possible.
