This study examines factors inhibiting African immigrant entrepreneurs’ small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) growth in a municipality of South Africa. Understanding these factors is important to stakeholders as this is an area that plagues much of the immigrant entrepreneurship literature. The study is descriptive in nature, and data were sourced from active African immigrant entrepreneurs through a quantitative approach. Random sampling was used to identify a total of 75 businesses. The results indicated that access to credit from regulated financial institutions is a mirage and that Afrophobic attacks on businesses dwindles prospects of entrepreneurship, job and wealth creation, thus impacting on economic growth of the region. To help bring ‘long-lasting’ co-existence between immigrant entrepreneurs and natives, formulation and implementation of ‘liberal’ integrated public policy interventions and strategies are needed. This would help in having a positive impact on the region’s prosperity in terms of job creation, poverty reduction and economic growth, in turn improving the peoples’ well-being. Given the migratory patterns and greater human global mobility, debate on integrated approaches among or within government systems should never be obscure as it is one of the biggest challenges in the continent.

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阻碍非洲移民企业家在选定的中小企业中发展的因素：来自南非当地自治市的证据

这项研究调查了阻碍南非某市非洲移民企业家的中小企业成长的因素。了解这些因素对利益相关者很重要，因为这是困扰许多移民企业家文学的领域。该研究本质上是描述性的，数据通过定量方法来自活跃的非洲移民企业家。随机抽样被用来识别总共75家企业。结果表明，从受管制的金融机构获得信贷是一种海市rage楼，仇视企业的商业行为削弱了企业家精神，就业机会和创造财富的前景，从而影响了该地区的经济增长。为了帮助移民企业家与当地居民“持久”共存，需要制定和实施“自由的”综合公共政策干预措施和战略。这将有助于在创造就业机会，减少贫困和经济增长方面对该地区的繁荣产生积极影响，进而改善人民的福祉。鉴于迁移方式和人类全球更大的流动性，关于政府系统之间或内部的综合方法的辩论永远都不应模糊，因为这是非洲大陆最大的挑战之一。