Nwest hosts SACCA Congress and Cooperatives Financial Institution IndabaThe North West Provincial government is to host the Savings and Credit Cooperatives Associations of Africa (SACCA) Congress and Cooperatives Financial Institutions Indaba to be held at Sun City outside Rustenburg later in the year in October.The Annual SACCA conference to be held over five days as from 21-25 October will brings together400 international from Botswana, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leona, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Canada and Cameroon to deliberate on issues affecting the SACCOs.

The purpose of the Indaba to involve the participation of 200 national delegates is to raise awareness around the International Year of the Cooperatives, contextualise financial cooperatives within the financial sector, provide network forum for financial cooperatives, provide financial cooperatives with technical skills and showcase financial cooperatives best practices.

Board members of Savings and credit Cooperatives, Cooperatives Financial Institutions (CFIs), CFI representative bodies, development agencies, banking associations including government department working with financial cooperatives are expected to participate in the Indaba hosted in partnership with the Cooperative Banks Development Agency, a parastatal of the National Treasury.