{"id":46893,"date":"2023-06-22T14:09:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T12:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/success-for-tsitsikamma-women-20230621\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T16:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:05:39","slug":"success-for-tsitsikamma-women-20230621","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/success-for-tsitsikamma-women-20230621\/","title":{"rendered":"Success for Tsitsikamma women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tsitsikamma Community Wind Farm (Wind Farm), located at Wittekleibosch Farm in Tsitsikamma, is committed to driving socio-economic and rural enterprise development in communities within a 50km radius of the wind farm.<\/p>\n<p>Through their efforts they have had a significant impact on the people and small businesses of the Tsitsikamma community.<\/p>\n<p>Sindiswa Speelman, Community Development manager, said the wind farm supported four women from the Wittekleibosch community to start a poultry project, later known as NNT Women Poultry.<\/p>\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_963a8b12\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/6045\/6cc2673b919a4cebbc3f151559f4c9b4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/904a3a4823fc4d77847f3921dca81845.jpg\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\">Photo: Supplied <\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/6046\/4c34f707cb214ec18ad786a6391fe850.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bf6af21824754841a1bbb450c71b9d71.jpg\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\">Photo: Supplied <\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/6046\/e01041262fbd4008a1b326738d41c5b6.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/f5e6866e2251477ba8531d72b7c5e0a9.jpg\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\">Photo Supplied <\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She said that the wind farm support on the project included business registration and compliance, infrastructure development, a vehicle for product transportation, skills development on business and finance management, communication, and operations management.<\/p>\n<p>The project began in 2020 and progress was adversely affected by COVID-19. 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