GOVERNMENT TO LAUNCH THE INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME FOR UNEMPLOYED GRADUATES
By BRIAN KAJENGO
As a means of creating jobs South African Government has a mission to
create more jobs.
Government strategy for skills development and job creation will receive
a multimillion rand boost when the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies
launches the Itukise Internships for Unemployed Graduates Programme.
The launch will take place at the Cape Peninsula University of
Technology, Bellville Campus, in Cape
Town on Tuesday 4 March 2014 from 10H00.
The Programme established to provide relevant work experience to
unemployed graduates through a 12 month internship programme in private sector
companies.
Minister Davies said, “The department will source internship placements
for unemployed graduates from companies that are receiving incentives from the
dti and also those that are interested in the programme.”
He emphasises that the programme is one of the dti’s
contributions towards decreasing youth unemployment and assisting small, medium
business sector in building the required skills needed in the sector.
"This programme is in line with the New Growth Path, Medium Term
Strategic Framework, the Industrial Policy Action Plan as well as the National
Skills Development Strategy, and will provide relevant work experience to at
least 1200 unemployed graduates over three intakes in the next two years,” says
Davies.
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