Companies will have to show their businesses have been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Tourism Department has set aside R200 million to help small businesses in the sector that are likely to be hardest hit by the national lockdown.
Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane said that Treasury had given her department the green light for the money to be used by businesses in distress.
Kubayi-Ngubane said that the money would be used to help small companies with a turnover of up to R2.5 million, who were fully registered and who had been in business for more than a year.
But she said the money would not be enough.
“I do understand that this won’t be sufficient… the sector has almost come to a standstill with various categories of businesses affected.”
Kubayi-Ngubane said that bigger companies would be able to get help through broader government assistance as well as through tax relief and loan repayment holidays.
“We are looking at the smaller businesses that are likely not to survive.”
Companies will have to show their businesses have been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We will ask for information that shows the business is in distress because of COVID-19. It shouldn’t be somebody who’s already been battling before COVID-19 started.”
Details will be published on the department’s website.
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