First Retrench Programme in Eastern Cape at ETC

Two hundred and ten delegates from General Motors South Africa (GMSA) were retrenched, leaving many people job-less and with out enough skills to make them eligible for the employment market.

Real Development Chief Executive Officer Ricardo Dames received the Retrenchee Programme from GMSA and outsourced it to the Eastcape Training Centre (ETC), thus forming a tri-party alliance between the three companies. GM’s vision for this programme is to provide the retrenched delegates with firm footing, enabling them to be employable or self-employed candidates.

GMSA has provided training for the retrenched delegates for soft skills training and technical skills training. The Retrenchee Programme includes learner profiling, life skills training, driver training (code 10 & 14), computer skills training; and technical training in mechanical, electrical and building & construction.

The Head of Departments at ETC compiled a list of short 20 day courses in their respective fields; thereafter in a session with the delegates, together determined what trade the delegates were interested in and were able to do.

The 210 retrenched are grouped into two phases, training for Phase 1 commenced on the 1^st February 2010 and will go until 30^th April, and Phase 2 will start on the 1^st April till the 30^th September 2010.

ETC is a registered BBBEE (Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment) business, non - profit Organisation established to support industry by inter alia providing cost effective and creative ways of dealing with business sectors and their needs.

ETC seeks and strives to make ready for the global market and motivate the people of SA, particularly in the Eastern Cape and consider self employment as a vehicle for wealth generation.  The following are a list of other courses offered at ETC:

·                Catering & Hospitality

·                Management

·                Motor Mechanical

·                Lifting Equipment – Forklifts and Cranes

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For more information feel free to contact David Lungile or Nava Govender at:

(Tel) 041 – 4561616 (during office hours)

(Fax) 041 – 4563955

Email: dlungile@etc.org.za / learnerships@etc.org.za

Or visit our website at: www.etc.org.za