EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
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Active TVET
It was good to attend a partnership meeting recently at the South West
Gauteng College (SWGC), a Technical and Vocational Education and Training
(TVET) college. This forms part of Plumbing Africa’s linking with the TVET
colleges’ programmes.
By Rory Macnamara
Certainly not one of your ‘accept and non-attend’
events; instead, a bustling number of people all
with one common goal: the education of our young
people. The SWGC covers six campuses plus
their contact centre and the Land is Wealth Farm
in Sterkfontein. The campuses are Dobsonville,
Molapo, Roodepoort West, George Tabor, Roodepoort,
and Technisa. The college also offers a distance
learning programme. Their contact centre is
strategically placed at the Walter Sisulu Square in
Kliptown, Soweto.
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Among the speakers was Dr Rob Schuur, chair of the
Board of Noorderpoort, Netherlands, with whom the
college has had a long and rewarding relationship for
many years. The principal CEO, Dan Nkosi, spoke of the
growing need for colleges to be accessible to students
and the SWGC has achieved this well. The college offers
business studies, finance, economics and accounting,
office administration, engineering, civil engineering and
building construction (this includes plumbing level 2 to
4), electrical infrastructure construction, engineering
and related design, utility studies, education and
development, hospitality, IT, primary agriculture, primary
health, a range of business studies, and management.
The partnership meeting, catered well for by the college’s
own students, gave the college and the partners the
opportunity to hear of the progress the college has been
making. Partners may provide donations in money or
kind, which is put towards state-of-the-art equipment
and an environment that is conducive to learning.
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Jabu Malikoe,
past student and
now with ABSA.
Stanley Matende,
programme
director of
SWGC.
Dr Rob Schuur
of Noorderpoort
(on left) with Dan
Nkosi, principal
CEO of SWGC.
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As Nkosi stated — and this is from the students who
acknowledge the contribution of the college to their
growth — “SWGC, period — enough said!” PA
“SWGC, period —
enough said!”
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June 2017 Volume 23 I Number 4