The Mercury carries a piece where the writer calls for the reserve bank to work with SMME on interest rate policy. Naturally he calls for a deduction but the main thread is that interest rates tend to affect the SMME far more than the JSE and big players. Small business becomes big business and in the early days will normally have a lot of debt or require debt in order to expand. The article highlights another pitfall of government policy failing to take SMME interests into account.