Robertson K. Tengeh

Prospects and Challenges for Small-Scale Mining Entrepreneurs in South Africa

Small-scale mining entrepreneurs are confronted with a variety of challenges during both the start-up and growth phase of their businesses not only in South Africa, but all over the world. Therefore, losing prospects available to them. The aim of this paper was to explore prospects and challenges faced by small scale mining entrepreneurs in South Africa (SA). To attain this end, a qualitative research paradigm was instituted for both data collection and analysis. The findings of this study concur with the literature, that there are indeed plenty of prospects available to small scale mining entrepreneurs. However, the most outstanding prospects was free training and funding. Nonetheless, the receptiveness of these prospects is somehow conditional.

From Cameroon to South Africa: From Refugee to Successful Businessman

Like any ambitious young man, Oliver dreamt of becoming successful. When it became apparent that the conditions in Cameroon would not allow him to realize his dreams, Oliver did what most Africans do today. He immigrated to South Africa, where he had to overcome a different set of challenges to achieve his goal. With a lot of hard work and the support of his family and ethnic network, today, Oliver is an affluent entrepreneur in his own right.

DETERMINANTS OF SMALL ENTERPRISE FAILURE IN ANGOLA: A MANAGERIAL AND FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE

It is well established that a number of factors con tribute disproportionately to the failure of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in most economie s. This paperexamined the contribution of managerial and financial factors to the failure of MSEs in the context of Angola.Thepaper adopted a positivist theoretical pe rs ctive, by utilizing thequestionnaire as the primary data collection instrument within th e quantitative research technique. Data was collectedfrom108 small business owners and mana gers with business failure experiences, approached through snowballing samplin g technique.The data was analysed with the aid of the Statistical Package for the Soc ial Sciences (SPSS) program. The results ascertain that, insufficient knowledge in the domai n of businesssystems, insufficient skills in the domain of financial accounting and negligence t o plan and control business resources, by the small business owners and managerswere among the factors that contributed to small enterprise failure in Angola. Thisreportsthe lack ofinstitutions actively in promotingentrepreneurshipfor knowledge and skills d evelopment andthe absence of successful entrepreneurial role models, business me ntors or coaches for entrepreneurial capacity building.