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MEET CHIETA CHAIRPERSON, WEZI KHOZA
A LEADER WHO DOES NOT SETTLE FOR MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO BUT ALWAYS FINDS AN OPPORTUNITY TO START The Chemical Industries Education & Training Authority (CHIETA) is a statutory body, established by the Skills Development Act. Our purpose as a Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) is to facilitate skills development in the chemical industries sector and to ensure that skills needed are identified and addressed through several initiatives by the SETA and the sector. CHIETA is one of 21 SETAs in the country and the Skills Development Act outlines the functions and duties of SETAs to ensure that they meet their mandate. These include the development and implementation of an annual sector skills plan that defines skills development priorities for the sector represented by the SETA; the promotion of a variety of learning programmes with sector employers and stakeholders to ensure the sector is capacitated with the right skills at the right time; liaising with sector employers and training institutions to register and implement learning programmes; performing quality assurance functions as delegated by the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO); disbursing mandatory and discretionary grant funding provided by the skills development levies received from employers in the sector; and liaising with the National Skills Authority on skills development requirements in the country.
How would you define CHIETA’s purpose?
Our mandate is a large and somewhat complicated one, but what underpins everything we do is the facilitation of skills development, education and training through innovative solutions for sustainable livelihoods. 48
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