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Microsoft South Africa is looking for more small, black-owned software development companies to join its equity equivalence-based enterprise development programme. The company first launched the initiative in 2011 and has since signed deals with five local companies

Microsoft SA has added two more small, black-owned software development firms to its “equity equivalence” support programme, bringing the total to six. The software maker says the two new companies, both based in Johannesburg, will join its R475m equivalence programme

Microsoft SA is about to embark on a second phase of its R475m black economic empowerment “equity equivalence” investment programme and is looking for as many as five black-owned independent software vendors

The department of trade & industry believes it can generate as much as R40bn of investment into the country through “equity equivalence” deals involving multinational corporations that operate in SA