Assessment of Cooperatives in the Poultry Industry - 2013.pdf - Seda

Research Report: Addressing the Needs, Opportunities and Challenges of Cooperatives
and Collectively Owned Enterprises in the Poultry and Related Industries
to create an enabling environment for small enterprises
facilitate greater education of income, wealth and earning opportunities
address the legacy of apartheid-based disempowerment of black business
support the advancement of women in all business sectors
create long-term jobs
stimulate sector-focused economic growth
strengthen cohesion between small enterprises
level the playing fields between smaller and larger businesses as well as between rural and
urban businesses and
prepare small businesses to comply with the challenges of an internationally competitive
economy.
In 2004, the act gave rise to SEDA by merging Ntsika, NAMA Trust, and the Community PPP.
Implications for SEDA and poultry cooperatives: The National Small Business Act gave rise to SEDA and in
doing so set out a number of objectives which aim to assist the development and competitiveness of small
businesses including cooperatives.
3.2.2.
Cooperatives Act (No 15 of 2005)
The Cooperatives Act was developed to replace the Agricultural Cooperatives Act of 1991, in order
to address all cooperatives in all spheres of the economy. The act was developed in order to provide
for the formation and registration of cooperatives and deal with other matters associated with the
development and operations of cooperative enterprises. According to the cooperatives Act (No 15
of 2005) the act was developed in order to:
ensure that international cooperative principles are recognised and implemented in the
Republic of South Africa
enable cooperatives to register and acquire a legal status separate from their members
facilitate the provision of targeted support for emerging cooperatives, particularly those
owned by women and black people.
The act also intends to achieve the following: (Department of Trade and Industry [the dti], 2005:12-
13)
promote the development of sustainable cooperatives that comply with cooperative
principles, thereby increasing the number and variety of economic enterprises (emerging)
operating in the formal economy
encourage persons and groups who subscribe to values of self-reliance and self-help, and
who choose to work together in democratically controlled enterprises, to register
cooperatives in terms of the Cooperatives Act, 2005
enable such cooperative enterprises to register and acquire a legal status separate from
their members
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