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TRAINING AND MENTORING
6.1 Training and mentoring across the industry to increase professionalism, skill and expertise. Training and skills development is essential to providing the human capital necessary to make the South African steel and engineering industry world-class and enable it to be competitive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It is also necessary to help restock the industry with critical skills that have been lost. A task team was assembled by business and unions to prepare a proposal (attached as Annexure F) on programmes for
6.2 Aligning the DHET, the universities, the TVET colleges and the merSETA with the needs of the industry.
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Mentoring middle and junior managers
6.4 Attracting young people and training and mentoring scarce skills, such as steel fitters and toolmakers, to “Meisterarbeiter” level.
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Developing career paths in the industry.
6.6 Ensuring that the curricula and equipment of the TVET colleges are up to date, are standardized and are aligned to the practices and needs of the industry 6.7 Using the training facilities available in some of the larger companies for industry-wide training, as happened until the late 1990s.
6.8 Rebuilding the capacity of the sector associations to do specialised training.
6.9 Ensuring that trainees will find places in firms, so as to be able to complete their practical courses to qualify for the National Certificates.
The Steel Oversight Council should drive this programme as a workstream.
The Council should also compile a register of artisans who have been retrenched, retired or left the industry, to ensure that the use of skills is optimized. An initiative between the German government and three South African Ministers (Higher Education, the dtic and Employment and Labour) can be leveraged.
DEMAND-SIDE MEASURES
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The South African Steel and Metal Fabrication Master Plan 1.0
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