Thank you House Chairperson, and thanks to the compliment on the work that we are doing. With regard to the AfCFTA, there is work that is being done at Small, Medium and Micro-sized Enterprise, SMME, framework for the continent but as part of the response, I indicated that we are helping our SMMEs to have access to the markets. That access to markets includes opportunities to trade and export to the continent, for example, with regard to our partnership with the International Trade Centre, ITC, where in we have partnered with them on their SheTrades platform, where they have targeted to have at least 3 million women exporting goods and services across the world by the year 2021.
|We have|set ourselves an ambitious target of |having | |250 000|of those 3 million women being |South |African and | |coming from the small business sector. |Thank |you. |
Question 322:
Thank you very much, House Chair, and thank you, hon Gomba, the department undertook the development of the Tourism Safety Strategy in