Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi and Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi launched a mass skills training programme for the province at the Nasrec Expo Centre, in Johannesburg, on Saturday, 6 April.
According to the premier, the first phase of the new initiative which is also aimed at uplifting Social Relief of Distress grant beneficiaries in Gauteng, will consist of 55 labour activation programmes.In the coming weeks, the next two phases will be launched in Gauteng, in accordance with implementing a total of 105 labour activation programmes in the province.
“The programme offers carefully selected skills training opportunities for all ages: In construction, engineering, textile, wholesale and retail, furniture manufacturing, aviation, and entrepreneurial skills, among others.
“We are going to be one province that will tell our president thank you so much for your R350 grant, we are taking R400,000 from that grant and we are giving our people a better life.”Lesufi added that a programme of such a scale “has never happened before” and jokingly said he asked his team “to check the Guinness World Records”.
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