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Stakeholders showcase contribution to skills development

-CEO’s stakeholder engagement

T he second instalment of the CEO’s stakeholder engagement programme kicked off North-West and KwaZulu-Natal this past month.

North-West

The two-day visit to Rustenburg started at family-owned Aug internships and skills programmes to the youth from impoverished
Behrens Spar Kroondal. Owners Ernst and Irma Behrens shared communities where they operate. Platinum Cash & Carry
with our CEO Tom Mkhwanazi how the W&RSETA’s programmes highlighted a challenge on skills drain in the province due to urban
have contributed to the growth of the company by providing migration owning to limited opportunities for highly skilled people
suitably skilled people for various positions within the store. While resulting in the company having to import skills internationally.
the company decided to host smaller numbers of young people, Shah said the company was implementing various programmes to
they employed over 90% of their workforce. The company also address this challenge and that they were committed to uplifting
focused on articulation through which some of its employees were small businesses and would be implementing a massive project
developed from learnerships to supervisory and management that would benefit about 1000 SMMEs.
roles.

Current and previous beneficiaries from the W&RSETA’s
programmes with Tom Mkhwanazi

Graduates from various learnership programmes

CEOs Tom Mkhwanazi and Taraq Shah
Second chance at education – learners on the
A CEO’s conversation between Mkhwanazi and Founder & AET programme at Choppies Supermarket
CEO of Platinum Cash & Carry, Taraq Shah, in rural Mogwase Mkhwanazi also spent some time at Choppies Supermarket with
outside Rustenburg focused on the large wholesaler’s contribution learners on the Adult Education and Training (AET) learnership
to unemployment in the North-West province. Shah expressed and imparted pearls of wisdom to encourage them to persevere on
gratitude for the good relationship with the W&RSETA that has their journeys of learning and to aim for the next level of success.
enabled them to provide opportunities through learnerships,
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