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NEW START: MEC Mosetsanagape Mothibi, centre, and Masamane bakery members at a sod-turning ceremony in Masamane yesterday. PHOTO: Boitumelo Tshehle

For three years the 11 women have been baking bread, muffins and scones that are sold in Masamane and neighbouring villages.

Before selling cakes the women were not employed and the community used to wait for a bakery truck to deliver bread to their village Sometimes it did not come.

Most basic food stuffs were only obtainable from Mahikeng, which is about 114km away.

Last week the Department of Social Development, Women, Children and People with Disabilities in North West gave the women a startup capital of R760000. The money will be used to build a bakery, that will be the first phase of the project. In the second phase they will receive R1-million for training and buying equipment for the bakery.

The bakery is expected to create jobs and improve the livelihood of the people in the remote village.

One of the project members and founder Kegomoditswe Mosiapoa said she had long started baking muffins and selling them to local schools.

In future the women also want to sell dairy products.

The Ratlou local municipality has already provided land and fencing for the property in which the bakery will operate.

Department spokesman Petrus Siko said constant monitoring would be conducted to ensure that the bakery was a success. - tshehleb@sowetan.co.za

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Jun 4, 2012

nomsa4

wow if i didnt no better i`d think the goverment is trying to buy us, telling us that hes creating job or opportunities for people!!!
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Jun 4, 2012

MORENITABELLA

they wont buy us!!!too late
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Jun 4, 2012

ThandileZA

16 Years of democracy and the government still have to spoon feed people who don't know how to achieve success on their own. Easy Come - Easy go, and the tax payers just have to keep on contributing.
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Jun 4, 2012

MORENITABELLA

sowetan u are messing with me as early as monday!!!whats wrong with the password
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Jun 4, 2012

MORENITABELLA

@nomsa
@thandile
morning my girls and happy monday,we look like triplets wud u think??ladies first on the blog the guys are busy snoring its monday ba tshwerwe ke setlamatlam!!


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Jun 4, 2012

nomsa4

monng to u @morenitabela wel it is such a wondful day , we inpowering woman
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