These are Six things killing small businesses in South Africa right now.

Confidence among South Africa's small business community was very low by the end of 2021, with concerns expected to continue until 2022.

This is according to the Q3 2021 SME Index by Business Stakeholders, which found that the confidence of small business owners (SMEs) that their businesses will grow in the next 12 months has dropped from 61% in Q2 2021 to 33.% in Q3 2021. This is quite different from the same period in 2020, where confidence was 72%.

Business partners and stakeholders said the slowdown in the growth of their businesses could be attributed to many market disruptions, as well as a lack of friendly environment for small businesses.

So here are the six things that make a small business in South Africa

1.Poor economic situation;

2.Removal of luggage;

3.Rising gasoline prices;

4.Side effects of Covid-19;

5.Reduced profits;

6.Violence erupted in KZN and Gauteng in July 2021.

Those are the six factors that can kill small businesses in South Africa, so the government has a responsibility to ensure that these issues are resolved in order to save the small business in the country.