EK U R HULE N I WE ST T VET C O LLEGE PLACE O F
PEACE AND LEARNING
EKURHULENI WEST TVET COLLEGE South Africa is currently faced with challenges such as chronic unemployment, inequality, and poverty. When unemployment deepens it impacts the economic growth of the country, leading to lower output and incomes.
According to official statistics, 6.7-million people are unemployed in the country - which is 29% of everybody who could be working. Unemployment is a major contributing factor to poverty with one of the main causes being that the youth lack the necessary job-related skills and training needed by industry. This is compounded by a lack of entrepreneurial expertise.
In trying to curb this scourge of unemployment, government established TVET college with the purpose of providing the necessary human capital required. These colleges deliver skills and vocation-based training as well as developing skills for employability by preparing graduates to meet labour force requirements. The South African government has identified entrepreneurship and business
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