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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.

From the Union Buildings 

It is no exaggeration to say that the world is facing a climate crisis of unprecedented proportions.

Climate change presents serious health, environmental and economic risks for our country. These risks will have increasingly damaging effects on human health, water availability, food production, infrastructure and migration.

Government has extended its Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) vaccination programme to include children aged 12 to 17 years old.  The Department of Health recently announced plans to vaccinate this age group.