SMALL and Medium Enterprises Development Minister Elias Mubanga has advised individuals who may want to access empowerment packages at his ministry to simply write a proposal, saying no connections are needed. Mubanga has also advised entrepreneurs seeking funding not to limit themselves to only owning “tutembas” but to also venture into businesses such as energy production. In an interview, Mubanga said one of the challenges his ministry faced was that the public was not well informed on how the empowerment funds could be accessed. “The challenge may be number one, I would say the public are not well informed. Maybe they are thinking it is the way it used to be done in the previous government, especially in the PF...