The Department of Trade and Industry (dti), is helping thousands of small businesses in townships and rural areas. Their programme "Taking dti to the People", aims to inform people about products and support services for small businesses, offered by the department and its agencies. This is done through road-shows across all the provinces.
Information sessions
Protect yourselves
Government is doing a lot to teach people about HIV and Aids. Radio stations, magazines and television programmes are also doing their best to get the message across. There is even a lot of sex education at schools nowadays.
The year 2010 will see millions of soccer fans from all over the world visiting our country. It is a landmark year that many South Africans have been looking forward to with expectations to host the best ever FIFA World Cup. But the real and meaningful benefits of hosting the world's largest sporting event will only come after 2010...
Kha ri Gude means "let us learn" in TshiVenda. This mass literacy campaign reaches out to adults who didn't go to school. It teaches them to read and write in their first languages. They also learn to do 
Mathematics and to speak English.
Government will be spending R6,1 billion on this campaign over five years. It enable 4,7 million South Africans to achieve literacy by 2012.
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The huge task of training the 15 000 selected volunteers for the 2010 World Cup is set to begin in February. As the 'face' of the World Cup, these volunteers will give their time, talents and skills to make the World Cup a success.
South Africa's latest 'export product' will be in the form of the popular hat worn by South African soccer fans known as the 'makarapa'. This hard hat was originally used as protection for miners and construction workers.
Protection
EMPOWERING THE DISABLED
REACHING GOALS BY CREATING OPPORTUNITIES
Thanks to government's policy of equal rights for disabled people in the workplace, the South African Post Office employs 742 people with disabilities out of its total of about 16 000 permanent workers. Recently, 13 blind and partially sighted people got jobs at the Post Office.
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"From Cape to Cairo, Africa must stand together as never before to create a sweet chorus singing the same song in perfect harmony. The 2010 FIFA World Cup must be Pan-African in word and deed as South Africa stages a tournament that inspires all of Africa." - Dr Irvin Khoza, Chairman 2010 FIFA Organising Committee.
Government, through different national departments, is identifying those scarce skills that the economy cannot do without.
Sector Education and Training Authorities, called SETAs for short, form part of government's plan to develop such skills. The Department of Labour, in turn, has plans in place to help SETAs get information on scarce and critical skills.
First, everybody did the moonwalk dance, then the macarena. The Mexican wave is also now a feature of all sporting events. South Africa is set to get the world jiving to an African rhythm with the diski dance to celebrate the first ever FIFA World Cup on the African continent.