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Table 31: Unemployed learners who entered various learning programmes (4.1, 4.2 and 4.3)
Equity
Programme Target Achieved Black Female Disabled
Learnerships 100 257 248 248 1
Skills Programmes 55 56 56 33 1
Internships 22 22 22 13 -
Bursaries 100 100 100 52 -
Workplace Experience 65 85 85 56 -
Table 32: Unemployed learners who completed various learning programmes (4.1, 4.2 and 4.3)
Programme Target Achieved Black Female Disabled
Learnerships 413 337 327 328 1
Equity
Skills Programmes 174 143 143 97 -
Internships 50 45 42 27 7
Workplace Experience
(Actual placement)
85 14 14 5 -
Challenges
The biggest challenge faced in Mpumalanga was the recruitment
and placement of disabled learners. Recruitment of learners is
undertaken by employers who in turn control the number of
disabled learners that the SETA can recruit. An effort was made to
approach organisations working with the disabled for recruitment
of disabled learners. One such initiative was through the disability
desk of Office of the Premier. The Premier’s Office offered
support, including the services of interpreters for the deaf learners
that participated in the skills programmes, without charging a
fee. The University of Pretoria developed Braille material to
accommodate blind learners. Special accommodation had to be
secured for physically disabled learners as they were not able to
travel every day. Additional funds had to be raised to cover the
extra costs for these learners.
A second challenge related to the placement or absorption
of learners into the workplace once they had completed their
learnerships. Most learners found it difficult to gain employment
and employers were not willing to commit to employment after
they had hosted the learners.
Future Plans
The province intends intensifying its working relationship with
stakeholders and constituencies. Plans for the new financial year
are under way and constituencies have already been consulted.
The province will be enrolling learners in the ECD Level 5
learnership to support those learners who completed the ECD
Level 4 learnership in previous years. More programmes will be
undertaken to raise the level of awareness of the ETDP SETA
and its offerings. The ETDP SETA is currently in the process of
establishing an office in the province.
Northern Cape
The Northern Cape provincial office continued to carry out
the ETDP SETA’s mandate in support of national and provincial
priorities to improve the quality of life of the people of the
Northern Cape, through the provision of much needed skills.
Central to rolling out the ECD programme is the provision of a
good foundation for children entering the schooling system, which
has proved to be important for school readiness and the future
success of learners throughout their schooling.
The provincial team is committed to working in collaboration with
key stakeholders and constituencies in the province to implement
skills development. This is evident in the participation of the
provincial team in key organised structures. Provincial structures
include the Expanded Public Works Programme; the Provincial
Skills Development Forum (co-ordinated by the Premier’s Office);
and the Skills Development Committee (co-ordinated by the
DBE).
The constituencies which participate in the ETDP SETA skills
development initiatives are mainly the DBE; NGOs/CBOs;
FETs; ECD organisations; Trade Unions; and small levy-paying
organisations.
Unemployed learners are recruited and supported through
the NYDA and other Youth organisations in the province as
well as through the Premier’s Office. The municipalities are key
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