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Starting your own business is exciting. It means fulfilling a personal dream and creating employment for others. But startup entrepreneurs need to follow certain rules and regulations to avoid clashes with the law or losing their money.

Vuk’uzenzele spoke to Mpumelelo Zikalala, an attorney at Zikalala Attorneys, about some legal considerations before establishing a business. Zikalala says there are three key areas to understand.

1. Regulatory role

Small tourism  enterprises are encouraged to apply for government’s Green Tourism Incentive Programme. 

The Department of Tourism’s Green Tourism Incentive Programme (GTIP) is encouraging privately-owned enterprises to reduce their costs by adopting responsible practices, such as saving water and energy.

Vutlhari Chauke (34) is a small-scale farmer with sky-high standards. The young Gauteng farmer runs VT Harvest, a Mogale City-based agribusiness that produces herbs such as fennel, coriander and wild rocket, as well as tomatoes,  lettuce and spring onions. 

When Phuti Kabasa (36) decided to add flavour to the mopani worms she was selling, she found a recipe for business success. 

In 2018, Kabasa needed to supplement the income of her household in Pretoria West. She found herself selling mopani worms and this is how her business, Mopani Queens began.

A young baker dreams of selling her bread and other baked goods countrywide. 

Lebogang Mashigo (30) of Mandlethu village in Mpumalanga is a resilient farmer who has seen it all. 

Paramedics and other emergency medical services workers have been on the frontline during the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. 

A Johannesburg-based psychiatrist and her colleagues are helping healthcare workers cope with the pressures of working during the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic.