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Baking third-scarcest job in South Africa

CYRIL RAMAPHOSA
Attention needs to be paid to basic and secondary education, as well as higher education, vocational training and adult education

CYRIL RAMAPHOSA Attention needs to be paid to basic and secondary education, as well as higher education, vocational training and adult education

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21st August 2015

By: Sashnee Moodley

Senior Deputy Editor Polity and Multimedia

  

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Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa chaired a Human Resources Development Council (HRDC) meeting at the Pick n Pay regional offices in Johannesburg earlier this month, where it was revealed that the occupation of baking was the third-scarcest in South Africa.

Pick n Pay hosted Ramaphosa, Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande and various HRDC members for a closed session of the council. They were also introduced to bakers participating in the retailer’s training programme.

Pick n Pay senior learning and development manager Lance Knowling revealed that baking was listed as a trade and recognised as an artisan skill and that it was the third-scarcest skill after retail management and sales management.

The wholesale and retail sector contributed 12.5% of the country’s gross domestic product and 3.1-million people worked in the industry.

Pick n Pay has invested more than R10-million in training for the skill this year.

Ramaphosa thanked the retailer for exposing young and unemployed people to training in baking and added that bakers filled a critical skill in the country.

“We commend companies such as Pick n Pay for investing and developing the skills and capabili- ties of South Africans. These visits demonstrate the progress we have made in various sectors. It is impressive to see companies executing their own commitment to developing the skills of people,” he said.

He added that attention needed to be paid to basic and secondary education, as well as higher education, vocational training and adult education.

He explained that the HRDC was charged with activating and implementing the human resources strategy to skill South Africans to ensure that they contributed to the economy.

He said the HRDC was the “brains trust” to enable the skilling of South Africans.

“We have a recipe before us in the form of the National Development Plan, but the ingredients are sitting in government, the private sector and commu- nities and they reside in the hopes of young people waiting to be trained, skilled and developed.”

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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