SKILLS
DEVELOPMENT IS INSTRUMENTAL IN ACHIEVING INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION – DEPUTY
MINISTER MASINA
The Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP)
and Black Industrialists Policy Framework that will be unveiled next week at
the Black Industrialist Indaba, loudly recognise skills development as a key
instrument in achieving industrial transformation and inclusive employment.
This was said by the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Mzwandile
Masina. He was speaking at the skills summit hosted in Saldanha Bay, Western
Cape today.
According to Masina, IPAP should be underpinned by the recognition
for skills development as an indispensable part of industrial transformation
and a drive for job creation. He also said the new Black Industrialists
Programme Policy Framework proposes skills development measures to be part of
the outcomes-based requirements for government funding of private sector
enterprises.
“The development of a skilled and highly capable labour force is amongst
the key drivers of this process of industrial transformation. Our ambitions as
government for industrial development recognize the need for the development of
a skills base that embraces technological advances and modernization in
industrial techniques,” he added.
Masina said this recognition included the need to develop advanced
skills in new technologies in line with the changes in technological
instruments employed in various sectors of industry including the energy
co-generation.
He praised platforms like the skills summit which are organised around
the need to foster multi-stakeholder dialogue on issues of development and
training.
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