The words I read in the article are "offered", "assist", etc. In addition, we all know about the repetitive mantra of "white monopoly capital". 
There are any number of funds specifically for prev. disadv. business start-ups. Some of them are: 
National Empowerment Fund (NEF)
Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) Funding
Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA)
The Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF)
Khula SME Fund
Black Business Supplier Development Programme (BBSDP)
Incubation Support Programme (ISP)
National Youth Development Agency (NYDA)

We live in a free capitalist system. My question to the author is: why, after 23 years, and with all the assistance noted above, is only 15% of formal business in the hands of an 80% majority? 

Instead of whingeing about WMC, go out, take the advantages given to you by the ANC govt, and create your own formal businesses and your own dreams.

The ANC may be corrupt, but if anything, the ANC is giving special advantage to black dreams.