Some 600 unemployed young people from the Ngqushwa, Sundays River, Kouga and Makana local municipalities in the Eastern Cape are beneficiaries of the National Skills Fund (NSF)-funded rural skills development initiative being implemented by Lavender Sky (ACOSA). The learners are being trained in plant production, crop analysis and livestock, small medium and micro enterprise (SMME) […]
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In-Touch Community Development and Project Managers is one of the implementing providers of the National Skills Fund’s (NSF’s) rural development initiative in Limpopo. With approved funding of R13,3 million for three years up to 2021, In-Touch is training 75 apprentices from Nwamita and Mookgopong in Limpopo in bricklaying, carpentry and plumbing. Noko Ndifu Mhleng (25) from
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Thande Phoshoka (24) from Ga-Dikgale in Limpopo, plans to use his animal production skills back home when he completes the skills programmes being rolled out by Dzunde Farming Co-operative in four sites in Limpopo with funding support from the National Skills Fund (NSF). Phoshoka comes from an agricultural family: his grandfather has cows and chickens
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The Diocese of Grahamstown Development Trust in the Eastern Cape was approved R21 million funding from September 2016 to March 2019 for the department’s workplace programme that is funded by the National Skills Fund (NSF). Lee-Anne Ngwane (49) from Mdantsane is one of the 300 people who benefited from this funding support. By March 2019, Ngwane was at advanced
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The flagship South African boatbuilding and composites training programme, which started training in 2017, is training 20 boatbuilding apprentices and 350 learners in composite short courses over a three-year period. The training project was initiated by the Marine Industry Association of South Africa and the Department of Trade and Industry (now referred to as The
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The National Skills Fund’s (NSF’s) funding approval of R19,6 million in 2016 enabled the University of Cape Town (UCT) to establish the Hair and Skin Research Lab, Africa’s first dedicated hair and skin research laboratory. The NSF funding was specifically for sourcing high-technology equipment needed by the laborartory. “This investment has been game-changer,” according to UCT’s
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Unemployed technical vocational education and training (TVET) college engineering students were given a new lease on life with the National Skills Fund’s (NSF’s) funding approval of R7 million towards the Shipping and Transport College Southern Africa (STC-SA). The NSF funding was approved for recruiting and supporting unemployed TVET college engineering students to become seafarers.As such,
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The National Skills Fund (NSF) approved R180 million funding for False Bay TVET College to establish its sixth campus (Swartklip). This funding enables the college to realise its vision of creating a skills campus purely focussed on the training of artisans. When complete, the campus will boast fully equipped workshops in various artisanal trades such as
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