The City of Cape Town’s R43 billion infrastructure investment is expected to generate an estimated 135 000 jobs, reportsThis week, the City met with National Treasury and representatives from other municipalities at the Cape Town International Convention Centre to discuss and share insights at this year’s Infrastructure Skills Development Grant engineering alignment workshop.
‘Since the inception of the programme graduates have been declared competent in their fields and were absorbed into permanent positions within the City. The main objective of the programme is to build a talent pool of scarce skills within municipalities across the country by training and mentoring graduates, and to assist them with registering with their relevant statutory professional councils,’ said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Corporate Services, Theresa Uys.
‘Over the next three years, the City intends to invest R43 billion in infrastructure at a rate far outpacing any other metro. These infrastructure investments will create an estimated 135 000 jobs over the next three years,’ said the City’s Executive Director for Future Planning and Resilience, Gareth Morgan during the opening keynote address of the ISDG workshop on Wednesday.
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