Sutherland’s Visit a Call for Skills Germination
How best to exploit the partnership for Skills germination
through exchange, scholarship and learnership programme on water and
sanitation with the companies that David represent back home.
Unlocking the skills backlog in implementing major water projects
like De Hoop Dam as profiled in this page.
A population displaying many of the legacies of Apartheid: Low
levels of education, employment and income, and subsequent high
levels of poverty, which reinforce the “vicious downward cycle of
poverty”.
Highest % of those older than 20 years of age with no schooling in
Limpopo & Mpumalanga: 42.65% and lowest % of those with Matric:
11.22% (SA: 17.95% and 20.42% respectively).
Lowest % employed in Limpopo & Mpumalanga: 13.7%, nearly unchanged
from 1996 (Not Economically Active: 64.95%) 63.5% earning less than
R1600/month.
Lowest % in Limpopo & Mpumalanga earning between R6400 and
R12800/month and second lowest (only Bohlabela lower %) in the more
than R12800/month category.69.9% or 682 747 of the 976 494
inhabitants living below MLL (SA: 52.4%).
Build and Sustain capacity in the people of Sekhukhune.
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