{"id":2237,"date":"2026-05-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/financial-literacy-for-eastern-seaboard-smmes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:16:46","slug":"financial-literacy-for-eastern-seaboard-smmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/financial-literacy-for-eastern-seaboard-smmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial literacy for Eastern Seaboard SMMEs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over two days at the Ugu District Sports and Leisure Centre and the Peace Initiative Hall in Ixopo, MISA and Old Mutual equipped small and medium enterprises with practical financial skills.<\/p>\n

Sessions covered budgeting, debt and borrowing, savings and investment, financial behaviour, business planning and compliance, strengthening readiness to access funding and pursue market opportunities.<\/p>\n

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Figure 4.1: Financial Literacy Programme, Ugu and Harry Gwala, 26 and 27 May 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 4.2: Financial Literacy Programme, Ugu and Harry Gwala, 26 and 27 May 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 4.3: Financial Literacy Programme, Ugu and Harry Gwala, 26 and 27 May 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 4.4: Financial Literacy Programme, Ugu and Harry Gwala, 26 and 27 May 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 4.5: Financial Literacy Programme, Ugu and Harry Gwala, 26 and 27 May 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 4.6: Financial Literacy Programme, Ugu and Harry Gwala, 26 and 27 May 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 4.7: Financial Literacy Programme, Ugu and Harry Gwala, 26 and 27 May 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 4.8: Financial Literacy Programme, Ugu and Harry Gwala, 26 and 27 May 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 4.9: Financial Literacy Programme, Ugu and Harry Gwala, 26 and 27 May 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 4.10: Financial Literacy Programme, Ugu and Harry Gwala, 26 and 27 May 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 4.11: Financial Literacy Programme, Ugu and Harry Gwala, 26 and 27 May 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 4.12: Financial Literacy Programme, Ugu and Harry Gwala, 26 and 27 May 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MISA and Old Mutual equipped SMMEs with budgeting, compliance and business planning skills across two districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-smme-empowerment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/esd-oldmutual-06.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}