BY MBONO MDLULI
LOBAMBA – The required number of people who want to do business through the Regional Development Fund (RDF) should be reduced to five.
Currently, the RDF requires that at least 10 people should come together and form an organisation so that they could be able to access funding from the RDF.
The MPs said the five people would be better because working in a group of many people was difficult. LaMgabhi MP Sicelo Jele was the first one to raise such a matter.
He pleaded for the number to be reduced to at least five people. He hoped that Minister for Tinkhundla Administration and Development would take that concern into consideration.
Mayiwane MP Sicelo Dlamini, who was chairing the debate, chatting with Motshane MP Wilton Nkambule and Ntfonjeni MP Raymond Dlamini.
Motshane MP Wilton Nkambule also shared Jele’s sentiments. Nkambule even jokingly said he suspected that Jele had read his mind when talking about this matter.
Nkambule, as a businessman himself, was of the view that 10 people could not work together in a business venture because they rarely had the same vision. He said businesses were started because those who started it had a vision.
Sithobela MP Mancoba Sihlongonyane also also shared the same sentiments with MPs Nkambule and Jele. He said there were a few businesses, if any, that were able to thrive under these conditions. He pleaded with the Ministry of Tinkhundla to help by reducing the number to five.
