PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION NO 949/NW1110E
DATE: 18 AUGUST 2009
Mr. S.J. NJIKELANA (ANC) to ask the Minister of Labour:
(a) What programme are currently driven by AgriSETA? How many individuals
have been trained in the programme of AgriSETA? Which courses have been
offered by AgriSETA? What are the plans of AgriSeta regarding training of
more farm workers in the current financial year?
Minister of Labour Replied:
(a) The programmes that the AgriSETA funded to date are in accordance
with the National Skills Development Strategy 2005 â 2010. For the 2008/09
financial year, the table below illustrates the types of programmes that
the AgriSeta funded and the number of learners that benefitted.
|LEARNING PROGRAMS SUPPORTED BY AGRISETA DURING 2008/09 |
|FINANCIAL YEAR |
|LEARNING PROGRAMMES |NUMBER OF LEARNERS |
|Agricultural Learnerships |2 961 |
|Agricultural Skills Programs |6 896 |
|Adult Basic Education (ABET) |3 704 |
|Bursaries |266 |
|Workplace Experiential Training |562 |
|Apprentices |324 |
|Mentorships : Emerging Farmers |447 |
|TOTAL |15 160 |
For the 2009/10 financial year, the table below illustrates the types of
programmes, the number of learners that benefitted and the amount allocated
to end of August 2009.
|LEARNING PROGRAMS SUPPORTED BY THE AGRISETA DURING THE |
|2009/10 FINANCIAL YEAR |
|LEARNING PROGRAM |NUMBER OF LEARNERS |
|Agricultural Learnerships â |662 |
|employed | |
|Agricultural Learnerships â under |383 |
|resourced | |
|Agricultural skills programmes â |1 208 |
|employed | |
|Agricultural skills programmes â |765 |
|under resourced | |
|TOTAL NUMBER OF LEARNERS |3 018 |
|TOTAL VALUE OF ABOVE |R28 556 792,00 |
AgriSETA PLANS
I am advised that the AgriSETA has developed short term plans to assist
farm workers that are aligned to the seasonal nature of the agricultural
sector and the different peak production periods.
The AgriSETA has also put aside an amount of R20 million to commence, in
partnership with the Commissioner for the Restitution of Land Rights, a
special project to build capacity of beneficiaries of agricultural land
reform in a holistic manner, engaging with them in a long term project of
skills development and mentoring. This project is in the final stages of
planning and interventions with selected land reform projects will commence
before the end of this calendar year.
I am also advised that given the size of the Land Reform project, the
AgriSeta and the Land Commissioner are currently approaching a number of
funders to raise a further R100 million to benefit more beneficiaries.