_: South Africa will host the International Small Business Congress (ISBC) from 15 to 18 September 2012 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. The theme of the congress will be Fostering small business in new and high-potential industries worldwide.

The congress will be hosted in collaboration with the City of Johannesburg, the Foundation for African Business and Consumer Services, Khula Enterprise Finance (now the Small Enterprise Finance Agency or Sefa) and the Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda). The congress provides for a platform to benchmark and draw lessons from both the developed and developing countries with a view of sharpening policy development and high impact programmes in the South African small, medium and micro-enterprises (SMME) sector.