The Tshepo 10000 youth entrepreneurship programme launched last year has registered 598 co-operatives‚ with 9344 beneficiaries trained in conjunction with Absa and the University of Pretoria.
Delivering his State of the Capital Address at Freedom Park in Salvokop on Thursday‚ Kgosientso Ramokgopa said by the end this month the metro would have awarded Tshepo 10000 co-operatives with opportunities to the value of R273million.
Ramokgopa said the metro had partnered with the department of environmental affairs and opened the Eco-Furniture Project in Ga-Rankuwa at which school desks are produced from biomass cleared through the working-for-water programme.
He said that to date a total of six factories have been established throughout the country‚ with the Ga-Rankuwa branch being the largest site.
“Thirty% of people employed by the factory come from the city’s Tshepo 10000 Programme and 70% are employed from local communities‚” he said.
To date‚ more than 6950 school desks have been produced though the programme — over 5000 of these have been delivered to schools in the Eastern Cape.
“We will rigorously continue with this programme in the financial years to come with an enhanced level of vigour to ensure that co-operatives play the dual role of mutating service delivery mechanisms within the City and also‚ contributing towards advancing economic development to the levels envisaged by Tshwane 2055‚” he said.
Ramokgopa also announced a bold step to create a co-operative owned by informal traders without allocated trading space to clean the inner city and assist with maintenance of infrastructure.
Tshepo 10000 entrepreneurship programme lauded by Tshwane mayor
The Tshepo 10000 youth entrepreneurship programme launched last year has registered 598 co-operatives‚ with 9344 beneficiaries trained in conjunction with Absa and the University of Pretoria.
Delivering his State of the Capital Address at Freedom Park in Salvokop on Thursday‚ Kgosientso Ramokgopa said by the end this month the metro would have awarded Tshepo 10000 co-operatives with opportunities to the value of R273million.
Ramokgopa said the metro had partnered with the department of environmental affairs and opened the Eco-Furniture Project in Ga-Rankuwa at which school desks are produced from biomass cleared through the working-for-water programme.
He said that to date a total of six factories have been established throughout the country‚ with the Ga-Rankuwa branch being the largest site.
“Thirty% of people employed by the factory come from the city’s Tshepo 10000 Programme and 70% are employed from local communities‚” he said.
To date‚ more than 6950 school desks have been produced though the programme — over 5000 of these have been delivered to schools in the Eastern Cape.
“We will rigorously continue with this programme in the financial years to come with an enhanced level of vigour to ensure that co-operatives play the dual role of mutating service delivery mechanisms within the City and also‚ contributing towards advancing economic development to the levels envisaged by Tshwane 2055‚” he said.
Ramokgopa also announced a bold step to create a co-operative owned by informal traders without allocated trading space to clean the inner city and assist with maintenance of infrastructure.
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