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The Health and Welfare Seta has provided R15.9 million to help fund education for students from poor and rural families, who didn’t have money to pay fees.

Despite being in her early 30s, CEO Dr Nokwethemba Mtshali-Hadebe has plans to turn Bertha Gxowa Hospital into one of the finest in the country.

Native Nosi is a local honey brand. The 100 per cent black-owned company sells raw honey harvested from its own bee hives as well as those owned by small farmers.

The Human Sciences Research Council has opened a satellite office in Sweetwaters, in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, to test approaches to HIV prevention.

Funding from the National Youth Development Agency has helped a Bloemfontein woman become a successful business owner.

When Angela Mkhabela started repairing shoes, she never dreamt that she would one day be a successful businesswoman.

Mkhabela officially registered Goodhope Shoe Repairs and General 12 years ago. “I knew that I wanted to make it big, but I never thought it would be this great,” she said.

“But now that I am here, I want to take the business further and make it grow bigger,” she added.

In a bid to grow entrepreneurship in South Africa, a number of government funding platforms are available to qualifying enterprises and individuals.

Between June 2015 and May 2016, the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) trained 1 037 informal traders, established 29 satellite offices and five centres of business excellence.

Women's Month

The Women in Science Awards aim to inspire other women (and men) to scientific curiosity and research excellence.

Woman's Month

By celebrating women role models, the Department of Science and Technology hopes to inspire budding scientists, especially young girls, to choose the sciences as a career path.

Women's Month

Thanks to a loan from a provincial development agency, a KwaZulu-Natal woman is laying solid foundations in the construction industry.