Africans, we have a responsibility to also look after this country from an economical perspective. With 43% gender representation at executive level and 66% at board level, we fully embraced gender mainstreaming. Through our urban ICT Academy in the CBD, and our rural Hazyview Digital Learning Centre, we impact hundreds of learners every year. Since the ICT Academy’s inception in 2003 more than 1,800 graduates were enabled with internationally recognised ICT qualifications, with a 95% pass rate and more than 85% employment rate in ICT related fields for graduates. In Hazyview the Open Learning Academy for digital literacy reached +/- 6000 primary school children, and celebrated 185 ICDL graduates, 9 ICDL advanced graduates, 5 CompTIA A+ graduates, 1 CompTIA Network+ graduate, 139 English for Access graduates and 7394 Online Hospitality Modules passed.
the prestigious Heroes Award - presented by the International Federation of Business & Professional Women (BPW) in collaboration with the Department of Trade & Industry, UN-Women (New York) and the UN Global Compact and under the auspices of the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles. This award salutes CEOs’ commitment to realise gender equality and highlights the concrete actions taken by the leadership to achieve noteworthy progress on gender equality at executive level. With the ICT industry being a male dominant environment, giving opportunities to women goes a long way to creating gender equality. Changing from the heart and not only from the head is essential to the success of our organisation, customers, our communities and our nation, and as we hand over the baton, we invite you to become part of this Nation Building journey.
Our intern program in-turn provides newly qualified learners growth opportunities within a business environment, to create a platform for their careers going forward, including mentoring, coaching and life skills to complement the practical skills required for their chosen career aspirations. Since 2006, more than 500 interns successfully completed the programme. From a supplier development perspective, we provide opportunities for the establishment of local small businesses in the regions, including Nkgwete IT Solutions, a black majority female-owned company in eMalahleni and Vumela IT Services, a black female owned company in KwaZulu-Natal. T-Systems is very proud of the local accolades we received for our contribution in 2014 through the Gender Mainstreaming Awards, as winners in the categories: Investing in Young Women, Women on Boards and Gender and Poverty Alleviation, and also received the overall Gender Mainstreaming Champion award. We want to show the world how to make a sustainable impact and awards like these helps to carry the message. In addition, T-Systems were also nominated for
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