2.3 Fibre Processing & Manufacturing SETA Mr S Ngidi: Chairperson led the presentation which highlighted the following: . The FP&M SETA was an amalgamation of three SETAs namely; Forest Industries SETA, Clothing and Textile SETA and Printing Publishing and Packaging SETA. These new changes were as a result of the new SETA landscape that was implemented by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr B Nzimande as of 1 April 2011. . The integration work in the newly formed SETA brought new challenges to the SETA. The policies of the three different SETAs had to be streamlined into one to ensure good governance, the sector industrial codes had to be renewed, supply chain management and procurement policies were revised. . The three different SETAs would keep their accounts until all their books were closed. There would be one central head office of the new SETA and regional offices would be restructured later during the course of this financial year. . The three SETAs had a total of 100 employees' altogether. However, due to institutional memory loss caused by restructuring, the current staff complement was 56 people. The SETA had not yet appointed a new permanent CEO and that would be addressed soon. . The forestry sector profile included forestry, wood products, furniture, pulp and paper. Majority of employers were located in KwaZulu Natal (31%). The clothing textile sector employed approximately 150 000 people, of which mostly were females. The printing packaging and publishing sector employed approximately 49 399 employees. . Finance: The total levy income budgeted by the FPMSETA in the 2011/12 financial year for the Clothing and Textile sector is R65 million, Forest Industries sector R73 million and Printing Packaging and Publishing sector R94 million. In total the budget of the FPMSETA was R 248 million.