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Spaza shops go digital
Free State residents and the founders of tech company Next Curve Creations - Tumi Letsaba, Kgomotso Sebitlo, Ditjhaba Selemela and Bandile Ntombela - have created a mobile app that will help spaza shop owners operate more efficiently.
Called Progressive Creations, the app is intended to help store owners unite to benefit from bulk buying. It will also help individual owners keep better inventory records.
Shaping the furniture sector's future
Carpentry experts are hammering out a stable future for themselves and their communities.
A hot cup of community development
The Western Cape Honeybush Tea Cooperative (WCHTC) is putting South Africa on the global map as a top tea producer.
Growing small businesses and rural tourism
The Tourism Grading Council of South Africa (TGCSA) is rolling out the pilot phase of the Basic Quality Verification (BQV) Programme in the Eastern Cape. This is to give emerging entrepreneurs and small business owners an opportunity to grow their businesses.
The TGCSA, a business unit of South African Tourism, is rolling out the programme’s pilot phase to 68 homestay establishments to help them prove that they are proper businesses that offer quality accommodation.
Treat burn survivors with respect
Lebogang Mathabathe (33) from Ga-Rankuwa near Pretoria knows all too well how quickly accidents can happen.
She suffered third-degree burns after a 20-litre urn of boiling water spilled on her in 2019.
“While at church, we were told to steam ourselves. We were using an urn that was plugged into a socket.
Girl4Tech equips girls for future jobs
Rose-Act Saturday School in Johannesburg’s Alexandra township has become the latest full-time global recipient of the Girls4Tech Connect digital programme. 
Run by non-profit company Rays of Hope, Rose-Act, which offers extra classes on Saturdays to school learners in and around Alex, is the first South African school to offer Girls4Tech’s new digital programme.
Upskilling learners for 4IR
Children are set to get to grips with coding while still at school to prepare them for 4IR work opportunities.
The Department of Basic Education is piloting a coding and robotics curriculum in 1 200 schools across the country, before introducing it to all public schools.