This paper investigated factors influencing value addition agricultural choices of smallholder farming agribusinesses in the Gauteng Province, South Africa, using the Ordinary Least Squares regression model. The study used randomly sampled data collected from 102 smallholder farmers by the National Agricultural Marketing Council and the Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. Four types of value addition were identified, namely postharvest, food preservation, milling, and post-slaughter. The results revealed that the number of people in the household, permanent workers, and access to training influences smallholder farmers’ choice of post-harvest, food preservation, and post-slaughter value addition. Besides, milling value addition is influenced by the size of the farm, grain, and livestock production, together with access to information and training. These results call for government intervention in promoting agro-processing and value addition activities to encourage farmer participation, income generation, and poverty alleviation, thus improving the farmers’ livelihoods.

Indubitably, African countries face a confounding entrepreneurial environment, which informs their low growth rates. This paper, through a literature review methodology, discusses pertinent factors that confound entrepreneurial environment of many African countries. These include unfair and skewed trade practices between developing countries and the western world, failure for African countries to process their goods, poor policy environment on entrepreneurship, high interest rates by the financial institutions, slowed border clearance of goods, cumbersome trade restrictions and control, and visa requirements to enter into some neighbouring countries such as South Africa. The paper calls for adoption of modern information technology, visa imposition to be done away with, governments to initiate policies to train potential business entrants, countries to ensure they process their primary products, lending rates to be lowered, ensure businesses operate through visible business plans, improving transport networks, and inclusion of business education in the curriculums of all the learning institutions.