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W&RSETA marks 22 years as a skills

development authority in the

Wholesale and Retail Sector

• International Leadership Development Programme which prepare future leaders for upper echelons boats an alumni of senior
executives from historically disadvantaged groups who are positioning wholesale and retail as a career of choice.
• A talent pipeline of suitably qualified and skilled management complement created through the Retail Management Development
Programme, with over 1800 middle managers, team leaders and supervisors benefiting from the programme since 2012.
• Launched a bursary scheme in 2011 to open the doors of learning to underprivileged young people.
• Post-graduate bursaries in MBA and PhD studies awarded to increase education levels in the W&R Sector.
• Workplace Employment Programme prepares TVET college and HET students and graduates for employment.
• W&RSETA contributes to youth entrepreneurship through New Venture Creation and skills programmes to assist young people
to start or improve their businesses with a focus on rural and township areas.
• Informal traders are supported annually to grow sustainable and profitable small businesses. The Informal Traders and Micro
Enterprises Development programme benefits over 2400 informal traders annually.
• People with disabilities are provided opportunities to gain meaningful employment in partnership with government and relevant
organisations. Support also includes sensitisation programmes for employers.
• 1800 women empowered to actively participate in the economy in partnership with The Clothing Bank to start or improve their
small businesses.
• Service Station Readiness Project equipped aspiring fuel retailers and empowered those who wish to pursue a career as
supervisors in the sector with a total of 1000 beneficiaries.
• Research innovation through establishment of the first in Africa Wholesale and Retail Leadership Chair at Cape Town Peninsula
University. Additional chairs launched at Durban University of Technology and University of Johannesburg.
• Construction of the R146 million Sekhukhune Skills Development Centre in Limpopo to produce artisans.
• Investment in capacity building and infrastructure support to Community Education and Training colleges.
• R18.5 million invested to implement the first learnership with informal traders . The Small Traders Empowerment Project
benefited 120 young people and 275 liquor traders.

The challenges that the W&RSETA has encountered in delivering its mandate have been insurmountable through the support of all
its stakeholders which stands the SETA in good stead to continue breaking ground in skills development.

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