Kliptown Business Plan - Johannesburg Development Agency

10 Skills Development and Enterprise Support
Given the community driven nature of the Open Air Museum, and in the context of the low formal
skills base in Kliptown, ongoing Skills Development and Enterprise Support is required to ensure
local participation in the Open Air Museum and other tourism and heritage-related employment
and enterprise opportunities. Skills Development and Enterprise Support will also contribute to the
development of high quality Heritage, Education and Tourism products.
10.1 Skills Development
Skills Development needs to provide for the direct skills needs of the Open Air Museum, as
well as for the range of skills indirectly required by related enterprises. This includes
developing local skills in the very supportive processes which are facilitating the programme,
such as project management, and enterprise support, as well as skills required to
operationalise the museum.
Skills transfer opportunities presented by the Open Air Museum and related tourism
developments and activities should be leveraged by ensuring that local identified staff
employed at the Open Air Museum have the benefit of working together with outside expertise
during the development and implementation of the Open Air Museum. Therefore, local
participants in Learnerships should be twinned with the outside expertise developing and
implementing the Open Air Museum to allow for appropriate skills transfer.
A number of delivery mechanisms will be used to deliver skills. These include Learnerships
and Skills Programmes. While Learnerships generally last one year, Skills Programmes are
shorter courses that can be completed in 2 – 3 months. Both involve a combination of
theoretical and practical training. Discussions with the relevant SETAs [CREATE-SA and
THETA] indicate a high level of interest in forming partnerships with the Open Air Museum to
deliver heritage and tourism related Learnerships and Skills Programmes.
The skills development programme has been divided according to Direct Skills, Indirect Skills
and Institutional Skills:
• Direct Skills: It is an imperative that human resources required for the Open Air
Museum are selected from the Kliptown Community based on established criteria and
requirements, and that these people are then appropriately skilled to have access to
the direct employment opportunities presented by the Open Air Museum. A number of
job categories and associated Skills Programmes and Learnerships have been
identified. The following areas have been identified to equip Kliptown residents to take
on direct employment opportunities at the Open Air Museum:
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