MINUTES OF THE MONTHLY CHAMBER MEETING HELD ON THURSDAY
24 APRIL 2003 AT 17H30 IN THE ESKOM BOARDROOM

Present

Dr Tersia Oosthuizen, Vuselela College; T Ntsizi, President; J Barnard, Your City; Jannes Roos, KoshInfo; F Roos, Koshinfo; E Brand, ABSA Besigheid; H L Pappas, Digicore; A Buys, Technikon; M J Madonsela, Technikon; R A Brady, Meatforce; S Botha, Municipality; K le Roux, Anglogold; T I Tshabalala, Anglogold; S Rowan; R Ntabeni; F van Wyk, Chamber

Apologies

C Minnaar, Independent Minds; M Dreyer, NW School of Design; M Uys, Postnet; F van Niekerk, Cectronic Security; A Booth, Westmac; R Holmwood, ARM; J Kruger, NW School of Design; C Hyman, Old Mutual; E Phillips, College Board & S Botha, Chamber

WELCOME / APOLOGIES

The Chairman welcomed all present and extended a special welcome to those members and visitors attending our meeting for the first time and introduced Dr. Tertia Oosthuizen from Vuselela College. Apologies listed.

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MATTERS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS MINUTES 27 MARCH 2003

Minutes were accepted as read and correct, moved by F van Wyk and seconded by E Brand. Matters arising discussed as ongoing matters on the agenda.

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PRESENTATIONS

• Skills Development
  
  a) The four Colleges which now operate under one banner and name are: Taung, Klerksdorp, Jouberton and Potchefstroom under the name Vuselela College. Through legislation the landscape for FET colleges was created. Change was needed from the old type of training to make the students ready for the job market and to enable them to obtain a formal qualification.
  NQI is a board overseeing that a national standard of qualification is kept. Learners are assessed against these standards. Different skills can be obtained and acknowledged. Syllabuses are compiled by the NQI. These syllabuses are learner centered.For the skills development program Seta's are instituted. Though they do not provide skills training they implement the programme through support and developing a sector skills plan. Develop and administer learnerships. Disburse levies and report to the minister and to the SA Qualification Authority.Through lifelong learnerships a learner can study in different fields at various institutes.
  Businesses can enter learners into a learnership after registering their skills development plan and appointing an accredited facilitator.Through partnerships with businesses possible career opportunities can be established.The programme needs the support of business and industry. Business should obtain information through the Chamber of the advantages of being involved with training institutions.
  
  The chairman thanked Dr Oosthuizen. Mr Brady suggested that we should have someone in the office that has access to all the information around the SETA training.
  
  b) Insp. Itumeleng Koalane, Sector Policing Manager not present.

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FEEDBACK

• Due to the presentation and the absence of many Portfolio members no feedback was given.

FUNCTIONS

• Building our Chamber Workshop (Management Committee, 17 May)

• Breakfast - Indevco 28 May (Development Incentives), details available from the Chamber.

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GENERAL

• The Chairman mentioned that the Chamber assisted the Communist Party with tickets for their gala dinner at which Minister Jeff Radebe was the keynote speaker, thereby fulfilling our social responsibility.He reminded the meeting of Mr Thabo Mbeki's visit to Klerksdorp on Freedom Day, Thursday 1 May.
• Frans Roos mentioned that Cell C is running a campaign called "Take a girl child to work" on 8 May. The purpose of the campaign is to introduce young girls to the work environment.

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The meeting concluded at 18h30, and the next meeting is on 22 May 2003