City training interventions address scarce skills development
09 February 2025
The City of Cape Town’s Corporate Services and Human Resources Directorate has successfully implemented a number of training interventions that benefited its Service and Sales workers (3 806), Clerks (2 721), Technicians and Associated Professionals (2 069), Professionals (2 676), Craft and Related Trade Workers (1 544), Elementary Occupations (1 022) and 716 Plant and Machine operators. As at the end of December 2024, a total of 211 apprentice opportunities and 1 470 external learnership opportunities were created. The City further has 34 active Infrastructure Skills Development Grant (ISDG) graduates within its ranks.
‘A City of Hope for all is our vision and the City is committed to skills development and the creation of opportunities for youth, as well as any eager-to-learn City staff members and residents. As of last year, the City has managed to train 9 567 employees across various training interventions. This is a remarkable feat that ensures that staff members are empowered with new skills to keep on rendering services of value to our residents,’ said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Corporate Services, Alderman Theresa Uys.
The City of Cape Town has also actively participated in the Infrastructure Skills Development Grant (ISDG) Programme since the 2014/15 financial year, funded by the National Treasury. This three-year programme aims to address scarce skills within municipalities across South Africa by training and mentoring graduates to achieve professional registration with their respective statutory councils.
The ISDG graduates’ key focus areas include Civil, Chemical, and Mechanical Engineering, Biotechnology, Chemical Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Regional and Town Planning and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
This year one of these Chemical Engineering graduates has been permanently placed at the City.
‘The ISDG programme plays a vital role in equipping graduates with specific scarce skills, abilities, and knowledge. We empower youngsters with three-year contracts that lay the foundation for them to register with statutory councils and bodies such as ECSA, SAGC, SACNASP and SACPLAN,’ said Alderman Uys.
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