13/08/2026
South Africa does not lack entrepreneurs. It lacks a development finance system bold enough to back them. 🇿🇦
Too many young and first-generation entrepreneurs are told: no collateral, no track record, no funding.
But if Development Finance Institutions only finance businesses once they look like commercial-bank clients, who finances potential before it becomes proven?
YIBSA is calling for a fundamental review of South Africa’s development finance architecture — one that backs productive potential, accelerates industrialisation and creates the next generation of South African industrialists.
This is not a call for reckless lending. It is a call for developmental finance to be developmental.
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The time has come to move from Gatekeepers to Catalysts.
