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Carpentry experts are hammering out a stable future for themselves and their communities.

The Western Cape Honeybush Tea Cooperative (WCHTC) is putting South Africa on the global map as a top tea producer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Four students from the outskirts of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) have jetted off to the University of Cape Town (UCT) to study medicine, after receiving funding from the provincial health department.

Graskop residents and surrounding communities in Thaba Chweu, Mpumalanga, are set to benefit from a new state-of-the-art clinic that was recently handed over to the Mpumalanga Department of Health by the South African Forestry Company Limited (SAFCOL).

South African traffic officers will be issued with body cameras to help gather evidence and improve the conviction rate for traffic law violators.

Deputy Minister of Transport Dikeledi Magadzi says South Africa is ready to issue traffic officers with body cameras in the coming years.