'N ONDERSOEK NA ENTREPRENEURSKAP TEEN DIE AGTERGROND VAN GROOTSKAALSE GROEIENDE WERKLOOSHEID / An investigation into entrepreneurship given large scale and growing unemployment

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to make a contribution towards greater success with the promotion of entrepreneurship in South Africa. Unemployment in South Africa is a large and growing problem which cannot be solved by merely intensifying existing measures of employment creation. The promotion of entrepreneurship is therefore suggested as a supplementary approach to solving the unemployment problem. The lack of success with the promotion of entrepreneurship in the past indicates the need for an alternative paradigm. The concept of development, as understood by the social systems approach, is suggested as such an alternative paradigm of entrepreneurship. A framework of aspirations, abilities and context is derived from this paradigm to put existing measures for promoting entrepreneurship into perspective. Together with the findings of an empirical investigation into entrepreneurship in the Coloured community in the Southern and Western Cape, this classification is used as a basis for recommendations and suggestions for more effective promotion of entrepreneurship.

Werkloosheid in Suid-Afrika is 'n groot en groeiende probleem wat nie alleen deur 'n intensifisering van bestaande werkskeppingsmaatreëls opgelos kan word nie. Die bevordering van entrepreneurskap word gevolglik as 'n aanvullende benadering tot die oplos van die werkloosheidsprobleem voorgestel. Die gebrekkige sukses met die bevordering van entrepreneurskap dui op die noodsaaklikheid van 'n alternatiewe paradigma. Die sosiale stelselsbenadering se ontwikkelingsbegrip word as so 'n alternatiewe paradigma vir entrepreneurskap voorgestel. 'n Raamwerk van aspirasies, vermoëns en konteks as die universele dimensies van ontwikkeling word hiervan afgelei en gebruik om bestaande maatreëls ter bevordering van entrepreneurskap in perspektief te stel. Hierdie klassifikasie word saam met die bevindinge van 'n empiriese ondersoek na entrepreneurskap in die Kleurlinggemeenskap in die Suid- en Weskaap as basis vir voorstelle en aanbevelings vir die meer effektiewe bevordering van entrepreneurskap gebruik.