The Hidden Cost of Women’s Entrepreneurship

Many SME support systems are built on assumptions that ignore women lived realities. Sarah Mthintso of the SAB Foundation unpacks how unpaid care work, family responsibilities and emotional labour shape business performance, access to finance and entrepreneurial survival. She outlines what institutions must change to make support genuinely accessible — and why wellbeing is a business issue, not a “soft” one. www.kaya959.co.za