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Fig. 2 Traditional dancing and handicraft during a village tour in 2015
can play a major role achieving the SDGs and the realisation of the NDP objective to
eradicate poverty by 2030 in South Africa. In support of this assertion, the reader can
view the numerous successes of the various skills training initiatives in Koffiekraal
over the last seven years, as showcased in Fig. 2 and by the YouTube videos as listed
in Table 3.
Table 3 List of YouTube videos related to the tourism and handicraft projects
Date published Title of video
Length of video
URL
Short description
2012/11/07
Community tourism
7.34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
ojbigW3y_Gk
Informational video on the vision
and planning for the community
tourism project for Koffiekraal
2013/07/14
April training 2013
9.02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
0Uy1Hn2TnK8
Informational video on progress in
the various training projects in April
2013
2013/10/01
Skuinsdrift update August 2013
4.48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
aL7vSdlqc6A
Informational video of the training in
the various projects in 2013
2013/12/20
Skuinsdrift community tourism
development 2013
5.51
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
haO0ri_goXY
Informational video of the training
phase of the community tourism
project, covering the 6 H’s of tourism
2013/12/22
Crafts and textile training 2013
4.53
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
B3jcuZ7osJs
Informational video on the training
and activities related to the
handicraft project during 2013
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