Govt to empower new skills to former mine workers - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The former mine workers will be taught business management, plant and beef farming by Walter Sisulu University and Ntinga Development Agency.

Millions of rands have been set aside by the Department of Labour’s Unemployment Insurance Fund to train over 7 000The beneficiaries will be taught business management, plant and beef farming by the Walter Sisulu University and Ntinga Development Agency. Deputy Minister of Labour, Nkosi Phatekile Holomisa, says the launch of the initiative will help fight poverty in rural areas.

“Many of these people when they are no longer needed by the mining sector, they come here and they don’t have any skills and they don’t have any money because they are lowly paid and they are sick.” “They are no longer in a position to sustain themselves and their families, but because they contribute together with other workers to the Unemployment insurance Fund. We felt as the department, some of the money that is available must be used to empower these former workers.”

Hope this will rolled out in the free state and northen cape

Why didn't the Gov do so while these mine workers were still employed? How is this skills dev program help them now when they're not mine workers anymore?

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