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Business Partners Limited is South Africa's leading risk financier for small and medium-sized businesses. The company offers risk finance using equity, royalty and debt finance, or a combination, and added value support in the form of mentorship and property investment and management for entrepreneurs in South Africa and selected African countries.

VISION: The vision of CIPC is to be the gateway to sustainable formal economic participation and investment for all in South Africa. MISSION: The mission of CIPC is to unlock value in businesses and intellectual property by: • Providing easy, accessible and value-adding registration services for business entities, intellectual property rights holders and regulated practitioners; • Maintaining and disclosing secure, accurate, credible and relevant information regarding business entities, business rescue practitioners, corporate conduct and reputation, intellectual property rights and indigenous cultural expression; • Increasing awareness and knowledge of company and intellectual property laws, inclusive of the compliance obligations and opportunities for business entities and intellectual property rights holders to drive growth and sustainability, as well as the knowledge of the actual and potential impact of these laws in promoting the broader policy objectives of government; • Taking the necessary steps to visibly, effectively and efficiently monitor and enforce compliance with the laws that CIPC administers. FUNCTIONS: • Registration of Companies, Co-operatives and Intellectual Property Rights (trade marks, patents, designs and copyright) and maintenance thereof • Disclosure of Information on its business registers • Promotion of education and awareness of Company and Intellectual Property Law • Promotion of compliance with relevant legislation • Efficient and effective enforcement of relevant legislation • Monitoring compliance with and contraventions of financial reporting standards, and making recommendations thereto to Financial Reporting Standards Council (FRSC) • Licensing of Business rescue practitioners • Report, research and advise Minister on matters of national policy relating to company and intellectual property law

The Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) is an agency of the Department of Small Business Development. We provide business development and non-financial support services for small enterprises and co-operatives, through our national network in partnership with other role players in small enterprise support. Seda has a presence in some townships and rural areas and has programmes targeting youth and women reaching over 12 000 enterprises nationwide. Seda also implements programmes targeted at business development in areas prioritised by the Government and DSBD.