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SECTOR EDUCATION & TRAINING
How to Start Up a Learnership: A Guide for Employers (Guidelines, Manuals & Instructions)
Department of Labour (The Government of South Africa)
Government has introduced a new training programme called learnerships. Employers play a crucial role in the implementation of learnerships. This brochure explains the benefits and costs of learnerships for employers.  > 
In Service Training: Engineering, Architecture and Related Fields (Service)
This programme aims to provide opportunities to tertiary students to complete their in-service training with the provincial government.  > 
Internships: Transport and Public Works (Service)
Students can get practical experience at the Department of Transport and Public Works through an internship programme. Interns are placed within their specific field of study and are remunerated for the work they perform.  > 
Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs) and the Skills Levy (Service)
The Skills Development approach aims to provide a framework for developing and implementing sector and workplace strategies to improve workers' skills.  > 
Baseline Study of the Activities of the SETAs in the Western Cape Province (Reports & Research)
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This report has two broad objectives. The first is linked to distributing and sharing information amongst a broad range of stakeholders about the activities of the Sector Education & Training Authorities (SETAs) in the province. The second is to avail this information so that it might translate into practical ways of planning, connecting and working together to achieve the skills development goals of the Skills Development and Levies Acts (1998 & 1999 respectively).  > 
Studying for and Careers in the Agricultural Sector (Service)
The Department of Agriculture provides information on various career options in the Agricultural Sector: horticulturists and hydroponics, food scientists/technologists , plant pathology, scientists in the veterinary field.  > 
Tourism, Hospitality and Sport Education and Training Authority Website (Link)
This site contains information on skills planning and certified qualifications. It also contains information on the tourism learnership programme, useful links to other tourism organisations and detailed information on the following sub-sectors: tourism and travel services, hospitality, gambling and lotteries, conservation and guiding and sports, recreation and fitness.  > 
Skills Development Act, 97 of 1998 (as amended) (Act)
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No. 97 of 1998
Department of Labour (The Government of South Africa)
The Skills Development Act, 97 of 1998 as amended by the Skills Development Levies Act, 9 of 1999 and the Skills Developlment Amendement Act, 31 of 2003, provides a framework for strategies to develop and improve the skills of the South African workforce and to integrate those strategies into the National Qualifications Framework. It includes provisions for the financing of skills development by means of a skills levy and a National Skills Fund.  > 
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