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Celebrating the gains

of skills development

ctober was another eventful month where we celebrated milestones
Oin the implementation of skills development in the Wholesale and
Retail Sector.

The W&RSETA made history with the sod-turning ceremony geared towards
the construction of our first skills development centre in Groblersdal,
Limpopo.

The event to mark the construction of our Sekhukhune Skills Development
Centre was honoured by Minister Blade Nzimande on 21 October 2021.
I invite you to share in our vision for this centre on page 2.

While still on that celebratory note, we also marked the successful
completion of training programmes for275 informal traders from the
Small Traders Empowerment Programme in Pietermaritzburg, Kwa-Zulu
Natal. We also celebrated with the 43 learners who graduated from
learnership programmes with our stakeholder company, Matus.
Message from the We have also been busy on the advocacy side creating awareness about
the W&RSETA’s skills development programmes for young people through
Editor-in-Chief our participation at the EmpowaYouth Week and Decade of the Artisan
event.

In this issue Please remember to confirm your attendance to our 2021 Annual General
Meeting on 11 November where we will be reporting on our performance
during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sekhukhune Skills Centre sod-turning 2
Matus graduation 4 While you prepare for the busy festive season ahead, please take some
time to read on these and many other stories in this newsletter.
STEP graduation 6
CGCSA Virtual Summit 2021 8 We wish you a successful start of the peak trade season to boost your
businesses particularly as we continue to navigate a challenging economic
CEO’s stakeholder engagement 9 climate.
Wholediary 10
NSA Conference 11 I will be back in November with the last edition of WholeSay.

Decade of the Artisan 12
Until then, stay healthy and take care!
EmpowaYouth Week 13
Yours in skills development,
Production Team Martha

Martha Shingange - Editor-in-Chief Manager: Marketing & Communications
Rhulani Mavunda – Editor
Desmond Mashao – Production Co-ordinator

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