Sasol invests in skills development for the youth.
Sasol in partnership with Gert Sibande FET College hosted an official launch of a pilot artisan skills development programme for young people at the Sasol recreation club in Secunda on 27 June.
This is a tripartite partnership consisting of Sasol, Gert Sibande FET College and the relevant SETA’s. The College will be responsible for the delivery of tuition and programme logistics, while the respective SETA’s will be do the quality assurance and accreditation and Sasol will provide funding as well as on-the-job training at its Training Centre. This initiative will give 30 young people from the community the opportunity to enrol in a three year artisan learnership programme in the fields of: Electrical Engineering and Fitting. The aim of the programme is to equip the youngsters to successfully complete their trade tests in order to qualify as artisans. The successful candidates will then be fully employable in any industry that is relevant to their trade.
Isaac Modise said: “Sasol is committed to making a contribution in the skills development of youth residing in the surrounding communities in the area of your operations. This initiative forms part of a three legged-approach to youth development that focusses on development in the Technical, Entrepreneurship fields as well access to information and infrastructure through youth information centre programmes that are being implemented in partnership with the Mpumalanga Department of Social development.”
Sasol has been an enthusiastic and generous social investor and it has always been important for us to ensure that we are involved with initiatives that truly make a difference in the communities close to our operations. We are therefore absolutely delighted to be implementing initiatives like this that is in firm alignment with our intent to establish stable, viable and sustainable communities.
Our vision as a company, to grow with government, and focus on the creation of one Sasol, one community – because we believe better together we deliver.