Ban on 'braai' kills butchery suppliers

Entrepreneurs now claim to be under pressure to service loans from financiers such as the Citizen Entrepreneurship Development Agency (CEDA). As a result of the situation, they fear that they are likely to face difficulties with their businesses in future.

One such businessperson is Molefhi Pilane who owns a pig farm in Selebi-Phikwe. He said in an interview that he is facing serious problems and still fails to understand why the ban was effected. He noted that when he applied for a CEDA loan, "I indicated clearly that I would be supplying local butchery owners and it was on the grounds of the promising butchery market in town that I was successfully granted the loan".