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The unrelenting effects of the economy turned half the country’s population into instant SMMEs.

I too bandwagoned and decided on selling pies to the hungry masses. I was also emboldened when the VP started talking about how SMMEs are important to the economy.

When eminent people like the VP start talking like that, you have to adjust your antennas because he might at a kgotla meeting in Muchenje make an announcement like ‘Since we have realised the importance of SMMEs we have decided on a programme to give these SMMEs grants and loans under a new programme called Financial Angels for Downtrodden and Distressed SMMEs’.

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