{"id":753,"date":"2023-05-12T10:24:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T10:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2023\/05\/12\/the-ceremonial-handover\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T10:24:32","slug":"the-ceremonial-handover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2023\/05\/12\/the-ceremonial-handover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ceremonial Handover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-752\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/CeremonialHandover.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left; width: 400px; height: 267px;\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/CeremonialHandover.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/CeremonialHandover-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/CeremonialHandover-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/CeremonialHandover-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/CeremonialHandover-380x254.jpeg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/>Deputy Minister of Small Business Developement, Dipuo Peters, joined by MEC Venus Blennies from the Ministry of Women, Youth, People with Disabilities, e-Government and Communication, hosted the Informal and Micro Enterprise Development Programme (IMEDP) today to handover equipment and machinery to informal business owners in Pampierstad, Northern Cape.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremonial handover is a nationwide trajectory to accelerate the growth of informal and micro enterprises by improving their competitiveness and sustainability in becoming formal businesses in the mainstream economy.<\/p>\n<p>Governmnent is committed to the needs of rural communities and pays special focus to young people and women as well as informal traders.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Minister hopes to see the equipment efficiently used going forward.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>#moderngrowingsuccessfulprovince<br \/>\n#northerncape<br \/>\n#smallbusinesses<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/premier.ncpg.gov.za\/index.php\/news-a-events\/photo-gallery\/category\/55-the-ceremonial-handover\" target=\"_self\">Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Minister of Small Business Developement, Dipuo Peters, joined by MEC Venus Blennies from the Ministry of Women, Youth, People with Disabilities, e-Government and Communication, hosted the Informal and Micro Enterprise Development Programme (IMEDP) today to handover equipment and machinery to informal business owners in Pampierstad, Northern Cape. The ceremonial handover is a nationwide trajectory<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2023\/05\/12\/the-ceremonial-handover\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}