North West Business 2018 edition
A unique guide to business, investment and Tourism in the North West, the 2018 edition of North West Business is the eighth issue of this highly successful publication that, since its launch in 2009, has established itself as the premier business and investment guide to the North West Province. North West Business includes news and analysis of the most important economic sectors and interviews with some of the province’s active business leaders and investors. To complement the extensive local, national and international distribution of the print edition of the journal, updated information on the North West is also available through our monthly e-newsletter, which you can subscribe to online at www.globalafricanetwork.com, in addition to our complementary business-to-business titles that cover all nine provinces as well as our flagship South African Business title.
A unique guide to business, investment and Tourism in the North West, the 2018 edition of North West Business is the eighth issue of this highly successful publication that, since its launch in 2009, has established itself as the premier business and investment guide to the North West Province.
North West Business includes news and analysis of the most important economic sectors and interviews with some of the province’s active business leaders and investors.
To complement the extensive local, national and international distribution of the print edition of the journal, updated information on the North West is also available through our monthly e-newsletter, which you can subscribe to online at www.globalafricanetwork.com, in addition to our complementary business-to-business titles that cover all nine provinces as well as our flagship South African Business title.
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OVERVIEW<br />
rything a trainee technician might<br />
want. Samsung Electronics South<br />
Africa will offer work experience<br />
to students after they graduate.<br />
The Taung Agricultural College<br />
has received a R13.4-million<br />
donation from Danish catalysis<br />
company Haldor Topsøe. The<br />
college had recently been<br />
re-accredited by the Council<br />
on Higher Education (CHE) to<br />
offer the NQF Level 6 Diploma<br />
in Agriculture specialising in<br />
Irrigation Technology.<br />
A graduation ceremony in<br />
November 2016 saw 169 students<br />
graduate from the Moruleng<br />
Community Project, an initiative<br />
of the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela<br />
Development Welfare supported<br />
by the Mining Qualification<br />
Authority and the Department<br />
of Higher Education and Training.<br />
The four-month programme<br />
offered carpentry, electrical,<br />
plumbing, bricklaying and<br />
entrepreneurship. A further 14<br />
apprentices completed Level<br />
4 Jewellery Design and<br />
Manufacturing and will take up<br />
further artisan training.<br />
Schools<br />
Provincial education authorities<br />
are trying to overcome huge<br />
challenges at rural schools. An<br />
important part of the latter process<br />
is the expansion of boarding<br />
schools, to which an amount of<br />
R500-million has been allocated<br />
in the medium-term framework.<br />
The <strong>North</strong> <strong>West</strong> Provincial<br />
Government's broader policy<br />
aimed at uplifting rural areas will<br />
see the Department of Education and Sport Development directing<br />
more resources to schools in the villages, townships and small dorpies<br />
(VTSD).<br />
While a hundred primary schools will receive smart-boards to<br />
improve mathematics instruction, the fact that the annual budget<br />
also includes items for installing sanitation at schools speaks of the<br />
magnitude of the challenges.<br />
There are 1 465 primary and high schools in the state sector in the<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>West</strong>. Spending on new infrastructure and on renovations is set<br />
to continue for many years, offering many opportunities to contractors.<br />
The opening of the PLG Hartbeespoort Academy in 2016 marked<br />
the first investment into the province of the Pembury Lifestyle Group.<br />
A campus generally comprises a pre-primary, primary and high school.<br />
Pupils at the Hartbeespoort Academy will write IEB exams when they<br />
reach matric.<br />
Curro believes it will be running 200 schools in South Africa by<br />
2020, double its current number. There are four Curro schools (representing<br />
four brands) in the <strong>North</strong> <strong>West</strong>, in Rustenburg, Mahikeng and<br />
Klerksdorp (two).<br />
ONLINE RESOURCES<br />
Mining Qualifications Authority: www.mqa.org.za<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>West</strong> Department of Education and Sport Development:<br />
www.nwdesd.gov.za<br />
National Department of Basic Education: www.education.gov.za<br />
National Department of Higher Education and Training:<br />
www.dhet.gov.za<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>West</strong> University: www.nwu.ac.za<br />
43 NORTH WEST BUSINESS <strong>2018</strong>
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