Cape Town puts R5,5-million into recruiting youth for jobs
THE City of Cape Town is putting a R5,5-million budget behind Jobs Connect – a recruitment platform to link young people with employers, which...
BMG has established a dedicated VSD workshop at the company’s Cape Town engineering facility
“OUR new VSD facility - which commenced operations at the beginning of the year - is an approved warranty centre for BMG’s Danfoss/Vacon and...
Sigma Connected takes on the 1000th graduate from the South African Impact Sourcing organisation...
A leading UK BPO provider is celebrating the success of a long-term partnership with a South African based organisation, which has helped secure jobs...
Don’t import skills, grow them at home
There is no doubt that South Africa faces a skills crisis, especially when it comes to digital knowledge that will revolutionise the world. Yet,...
Rich rewards result from investing in WearCheck’s training
Ensuring that condition monitoring customers whose maintenance staff undergo ongoing technical skills training earn significant returns from their investment into the training courses, is...
RLabs creates a R100-million venture unit to foster township businesses
By Larry Claasen
RECONSTRUCTED Living Labs (RLabs), a Cape Town-based NGO, has created a R100-million venture capital fund to support emerging innovative businesses that will...
Hosted learnerships help connect funding with opportunity to support job creation and economic growth
By Daniel Orelowitz, MD of Training Force
Skills development in the form of learnerships is an essential element of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE)...
City’s industry partnership programme fuelling jobs, billions in investments
In the last three and a half years, the City’s funding partnerships with high-growth industry organisations have facilitated R25,4 billion in investments and directly...
Western Cape agriculture to gain from drone certification
THE Western Cape Department of Agriculture (WCDoA) is now able to leverage the benefits of aerial drones following the South African Civil Aviation Authority's...
Skilled workers are central to the sustainability of the agricultural sector
When Dr Ivan Meyer was appointed the Western Cape Minister of Agriculture in 2019 he stressed that the future of a sustainable agricultural sector...
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