Entrepreneurship education in South Africa

Abstract

This paper discusses entrepreneurship education in South Africa. The objectives of the paper are to give an overview of entrepreneurship education in South Africa, to identify and discuss the objectives of entrepreneurship education. The target audience for entrepreneurship education, benefits of entrepreneurship education, challenging confronting entrepreneurship education, the assessment of entrepreneurship education and the support for entrepreneurship education in South Africa were also discussed in this paper. This paper also discusses the relationship between entrepreneurship education and the performance of SMMEs in South Africa. Since this is a literature study, various research papers in line with entrepreneurship education were reviewed.