Dear TTA members and all other tourism businesses in Tshwane, we are updating our database with business statuses to be available for government should they ask for our assistance at short notice.  Kindly notify us, by email to secretary@tshwanetourism.com regarding whether your business is (please include business name and type):

1. open and in use for/classified as essential services
2. nominated as a quarantine facility/service
3. operational and housing stranded guests
4. closed and empty

Thank you for your assistance as we continue to try and assist our country in this regard.

Please feel free to share this message with non-TTA members, we are all in this together.

Ubuntu Beds is an initiative that aims to unite hospitality businesses that now stand empty, with our healthcare workers who are fighting the virus on the front lines.

South Africa is still in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the coming weeks, we expect infections to increase drastically, causing our hospitals and clinics to become overwhelmed with patients in need of assistance. What this means for doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers is longer hours, heightened stress, and exposure to the virus.

By connecting healthcare workers with accommodation, we can ensure they won’t need to travel long distances home to their families, that they’ll be able to rest easy, and in turn, ensure the safety of more South Africans.

You too can help by liking and sharing and spreading the love.

Donate or contribute to Ubuntu Beds

It is essential that when restaurants in South Africa are allowed to reopen after the national lock-down that they be allowed to do so in a feasible and sustainable manner.

The TTA is collating information on the state of readiness of restaurants to reopen, and the effect that any potential restrictions may have on restaurants upon reopening, to submit to National Government to inform their decision making.

Kindly complete the online form to participate in this initiative to ensure that our restaurants are supported to reopen in a sustainable manner.

The Department of Labour has introduced a new e-mail address for the Temporary Employer / Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) to help companies fund their employees’ wages amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Employer/s that have to enforce lock down as regulated and who might require financial assistance from the UIF should access information regarding available funding through a dedicated mailbox covid19ters@labour.gov.za.

On receipt of a request, an automated response will be sent outlining the procedure and documents/information required by the Fund to process your application.

For more information, read the COVID-19 TERS Easy Aid guide.

Due to the unprecedented response of over 5000 registrations for the webinar presented by Professor Lucia Anelich of Anelich Consulting, we have decided to offer the webinar every single day of this week at 12:00 to accommodate as many people as possible.

SAAFoST (SA Association for Food Science & Technology) and Anelich Consulting are committed to serving the food science and broader communities during these difficult times in our global history.

Register for the free webinar.

Prof Lucia Anelich has a PhD in microbiology and is currently owner of her own food safety training and consulting business, Anelich Consulting, which she started in 2011. Prior to that, she spent 5 years at the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa where she established and headed up the Food Safety Initiative, a food safety body for the food industry and a first for the country.

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