November 2011
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.......Employment news

Roads are leading to skills and jobs
Without proper roads it is difficult for people living in rural areas to access major towns to sell their goods or for children to get to school. This is why government has started putting plans into place to drive road construction across the country.

Young trainees assured of jobs
Young people, mostly from the Northern Cape, have the assurance that they will get jobs after completing their training as artisans.


In harmony with nature
"If we work with the environment, the environment will work for us," said the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa. She was introducing an eco-friendly furniture factory as part of National Parks Week recently.


Feeding a hungry boiler helps feed her family
Public Enterprises youth development programmes
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) aims to provide effective shareholder management of state-owned companies (SOCs) that report to the Department and support and promote economic efficiency and competitiveness for a better life for all South Africans.


Young women bridge the technical divide
Ms Bongi Dumakude, is a young woman with technical veins in her system. She speaks about gaining practical training and knowledge on the workings of medical gas, air conditioning, refrigerators and fitters at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.

Moving up through mentoring
South Africa’s youth are urged to seize opportunities and not give up on establishing their own small businesses. Encouraging young people to persevere, National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) Chief Executive Steven Ngubeni said “it’s too early to give up and be hopeless”.

Fair employment for disabled
International Day of Diabled Persons is marked worldwide on 3 December every year. The Department of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities was established to emphasise the need for equity and access to development opportunities for vulnerable groups within South Africa.