BBC’s new hotline to tackle late payments, BUSINESS REPORT (Mercury)
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NEF hands council R3bn grant IN A BID to address late payments for black entrepreneurs, with “complaints almost on a daily basis”, the Black Business Council (BBC) is establishing a hotline to monitor the payments with part of a R3 million grant from the National Empowerment Fund (NEF). The BBC's chief executive, Xolani Qubeka, said yesterday that though the complaints could not be quantified into amounts in late payments, the BBC “will be collecting surveys which will be published as data at the end of each year”.