Lead and coordinate an integrated approach to the promotion and development of entrepreneurship among small, medium and micro enterprises and cooperatives, and ensure an enabling legislative and policy environment to support their growth and sustainability.
The Department of Small Business Development is tasked with leading and coordinating an integrated approach to the promotion and development of entrepreneurship, small businesses and cooperatives, and ensuring an enabling legislative and policy environment to support their growth and sustainability. The realisation of this mandate is expected to lead to a transformed and inclusive economy driven by sustainable and innovative small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) and cooperatives. The department’s mandate is guided by a legislative framework that includes: section 3(d) of the Industrial Development Corporation Act (1940); the Business Act (1991); the National Small Enterprise Act (1996), as amended; the Cooperatives Act (2005), as amended; the Cooperatives Amendment Act (2013); the cooperatives development policy.
The Estimates of National Expenditure (ENE) is a book published along with the tabling of the budget for the new financial year.
A department's programmes are the activities that it spends money on during the financial year. Different programmes have different budgets, depending on their objectives and available budgets. More detail on the programmes is available in the department's Estimates of National Expenditure documents.
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In addition to exploring the department budget by programmes, the budget is classified according to Economic Classification.
The Economic Classification of a department's expenditure distinguishes between various categories of current expenditure and capital expenditure. The purpose of the economic classification is to categorise transactions according to type of object or input, such as compensation of employees or capital assets.
This visualisation highlights how many categories of expenditure there are for this department at Economic Classification level 4, and which ones are the biggest. year -- 2025-26
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The Adjusted Estimates of National Expenditure (AENE) is a book published along with the tabling of the adjusted budget.
These charts show changes to the spending plans originally published in the Estimates of National Expenditure. Details of these changes are published in the Adjusted Estimates of National Expenditure.
Special appropriations are not included in the Adjustments Appropriation. Special appropriations passed before the adjusted budget are included in the dataset.
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Budgeted and actual expenditure for a department can increase or decrease from year to year. Changes in expenditure can follow shifts in departmental activities, priorities, efficiencies, and the price of goods and services over time.
The chart shows the department's latest available historical expenditure for past years, and planned expenditure for the current year and medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF) years.
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Compare the adjusted appropriation to the main appropriation to see whether changes were made in the adjustments budget to the appropriations set out in the budget. The audited outcome shows what was actually spent.
Note: Direct charges against the National Revenue Fund are excluded.
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