North West Business 2019 edition
The 2019 edition of North West Business is the ninth issue of this highly successful publication that, since its launch in 2009, has established itself as the premier business and investment guide for the North West Province. North West Business includes news and analysis of the most important sectors, with a regional overview covering the strategic thinking behind plans to attract investment into the province. Best known for its platinum mines, grain and livestock farming and tourism, the province is making a concerted effort to bolster its manufacturing capacity. Updated information on the North West is also available through our monthly e-newsletter, which you can subscribe to 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.
The 2019 edition of North West Business is the ninth issue of this highly successful publication that, since its launch in 2009, has established itself as the premier business and investment guide for the North West Province.
North West Business includes news and analysis of the most important sectors, with a regional overview covering the strategic thinking behind plans to attract investment into the province. Best known for its platinum mines, grain and livestock farming and tourism, the province is making a concerted effort to bolster its manufacturing capacity.
Updated information on the North West is also available through our monthly e-newsletter, which you can subscribe to 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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FOCUS<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>West</strong><br />
Provincial Government<br />
Sedu’s sentiments were echoed by MEC Galeng who appealed<br />
to municipalities, the business sector and the community at large<br />
to adopt and extend the support to leverage on the skills acquired<br />
by these young people, so that they contribute meaningfully to the<br />
entrepreneurship programmes in the province.<br />
A convenor on youth developmet in the department, Seitebaleng<br />
Dikole, said that the learners who have undergone training are the first<br />
group to receive full qualification as opposed to statements of results<br />
on the modules passed by learners between 2011 and 2016.<br />
The improved programme, Dikole said, allows participants to progress<br />
towards the professional fields of becoming artisans if they develop their<br />
skills further with additional education and relevant work experience.<br />
Boost for early childhood development<br />
The National Lotteries Commission’s multi-million-rand funding<br />
to Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs) will improve infrastructure<br />
and enhance compliance to the norms and standards required<br />
for operating early childhood development centres in the<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>West</strong> Province, according to MEC for Social Development<br />
Hoffman Galeng.<br />
“The National Lotteries Commission has sponsored the<br />
construction of 12 early childhood education facilities and 10 educontainers<br />
in identified areas across<br />
the province,” Galeng said, adding<br />
that community members should<br />
take care of the new infrastructure<br />
once it is completed.<br />
Mariette van Uyssteen, who<br />
founded Haasbekkie Early<br />
Childhood Development, has<br />
expressed her profound thanks to<br />
the department for helping her to<br />
apply for funding at the National<br />
Lotteries Commission.<br />
“I am so grateful that the<br />
Lotteries Commission installed<br />
an edu-container at Coldridge in<br />
Vryburg.” Uyssteen was operating<br />
a day-care centre in a rented room<br />
for a period of five years. In that time<br />
Uyssteen depended on support<br />
from the Caritas community<br />
organisation.<br />
Another beneficiary, Constance<br />
Makobea, a committee member<br />
of the Itireleng Tataiso day-care<br />
centre at Itireleng village, said<br />
she is grateful that through the<br />
assistance of the departmental<br />
staff the national lottery would<br />
build a fully-fledged centre worth<br />
R3.8-million.<br />
Galeng said the construction<br />
of prototype ECDs will go a long<br />
way to eradicating the crèches<br />
which do not meet the norms and<br />
standards that are being enforced<br />
by the Department of Social<br />
Development.<br />
17 NORTH WEST BUSINESS <strong>2019</strong>
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