Limpopo Business 2017-18 edition

OVERVIEW
Education and training
Relevant training for employment is a provincial priority.
The Limpopo Provincial Government is running a national pilot
project in training for Tool, Dye and Mould-Making.
There is a plan to establish a Manufacturing Support Centre to
make sure that the right skills are being taught to support industry.
Participants include the Limpopo Tooling Initiative Advisory Board, the
Technology Information Agency and universities.
During the 2016/17 financial year, the provincial government
employed 134 graduates. A further 120 trainee field rangers were
recruited through the Jobs Fund. Deployment to work in game and
nature reserves began in April 2016 and continued through 2017, in
consultation with traditional authorities around the province. Another
6 362 young people were trained in business and technical skills and
3 907 were employed in either the public and private sector. A further
8 300 will be absorbed in the 2017/18 financial year as part of the same
programme. In a specialist programme to develop skills in the green
economy, 31 young people are studying energy management systems.
Other training achievements include:
• 31 being certified as energy managers
• 6 fully accredited as artisans
• 949 community members receiving ICT skills training.
The Medupi Power Station Joint Venture (Grinaker-LTA, Murray &
Roberts and Concor) has a training facility where about 1 300 local people
have been trained to qualify for jobs on this complex building site.
De Beers has established a Skills Development Centre, linked to its
Venetia Mine. The centre caters not only to mine employees, but also
EDUCATION STATISTICS, 2017
Scholar transport schools 255
NSNP beneficiaries* 3 854
No-fee school pupils
1.7-million
Primary Schools offering Grade R 2 339
Classrooms built 2015/16 354
New schools built 2015/16 5
Teachers given extra training:2013-2016 1 400
* National Schools Nutrition Programme
SOURCE: LIMPOPO PREMIER’S STATE OF PROVINCE SPEECH, 2017
SECTOR INSIGHT
Trainee field rangers have
been recruited through the
Jobs Fund.
for local school pupils and adults
from the community of Alldays.
Impala Platinum, with
Limpopo subsidiary Marula
Platinum, has a partnership with
the National Department of
Mineral Resources and the Da
Vinci Institute for Technology
Management, which focuses on
the training of black women in
the mining industry.
Anglo Platinum (Amplats) has
a new Mining Training Centre
(Eastern Limb) at its Twickenham
mine which will also deliver training
and assessment to staff of
other operations.
There are seven Technical
and Vocational Education and
Training (TVET) colleges in
Limpopo: Capricorn College,
Lephalale College, Mopani East
College, Mopani South College,
Sekhukhune College, Vhembe
College and Waterberg College.
Capricorn College has three
campuses, each of which has a
slightly different focus. The city
campus in Polokwane offers business
studies, engineering and
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