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Local government

Municipal policies help alleviate poverty by providing free basic services to people unable to support themselves. The poorest households – the unemployed, people living on grants and children – benefit from free water, electricity, sewage and sanitation services.

When Vivian Kleynhans decided to go into wine farming in 2005, she transformed her family’s fate.

Operation Phakisa, run by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), has shelled out the resources needed for a mussel farm in Saldanha Bay to thrive.

A home-building project leads to young volunteers receiving technical training from the Department of Human Settlements’ Youth Brigade Programme. 

Local government

The Gauteng government has spelt out a number of plans to create 600 000 jobs in the next two years and to boost township economies.

Gauteng MEC for Economic Development, Environmental Affairs and Agriculture Lebogang Maile unveiled his department’s 2017/2018 budget recently. It spells out plans to grow township and rural Gauteng economies through public procurement and grow the province’s knowledge-based economy.

A grassroots approach to HIV and TB is making a real difference in an impoverished Western Cape community.

The Eastern Cape Office of the Premier and the Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform (ECRDAR) pledged about R60 million to boost youth-focused agricultural initiatives in the province.

A number of initiatives are under way in the Eastern Cape to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and upskill communities.

Fifteen small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs) from across the Free State were recently given an opportunity to showcase their businesses in front of potential private sector investors and government agencies. 

Siblings shatter perceptions about rural economies by establishing a thriving toilet paper factory in a small Eastern Cape village.