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INTRODUCTION
SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS
GROWING SHARED VALUE 3 SASOL IN SOCIETY
DATA AND ASSURANCE
ANNEXURES
GROWING SHARED VALUE // Sasol in Society // Bridge-to-work programme
OUR GROUP
APPROACH
Skills development plays a pivotal role in creating
sustainable livelihoods and driving both the formal
and informal economies globally. We have seen a
need to improve the standard of training due to the
extraordinary challenges presented by the COVID-19
pandemic for skills development systems. It not only forced a rethink of future skills required
but also how these skills will be accessed by the youth.
The trainings offered lead to enhanced economic opportunities in our fenceline communities.
We offer targeted interventions that provide youth with core skills, technical, vocational
and work readiness training which enables them to become self-sustainable and positive
contributors to local and national economies.
TARGETED INTERVENTIONS
Enabling youth employment
Prioritise development interventions
that are linked to local community
value chain services such as plumbing,
electrification and tiling.
Mozambique
North America
" Iphepe successfully trained
and mentored 164 people in
agricultural skills, livestock,
vegetable and poultry
production.
" 500 beneficiaries were trained
in entrepreneurship, with
250 receiving funding for new
businesses.
The Louisiana Small Business
Development Center at McNeese
State University in Lake Charles
offers confidential consulting and
business training to existing and
potential small business owners
in the Southwest Louisiana area
at no cost. Sasol is one of the
centre9s largest corporate
sponsors. During the year the
programme:
" We collaborated with the Small
Enterprise Development Agency
to showcase more than 40
entrepreneurs from KwaZuluNatal at a pop-up market.
" 42 welders completed
structural welding training
and 12 welders completed a
tungsten inert gas module.
Commercialising technical skills to enable
sustainable income earning.
Capacitating
entrepreneurs
through business
development that
enables them to
set up sustainable
enterprises.
Provision of starter pack/trade tools
Training of the unemployed aligned to
economic activity.
Beneficiaries graduate and receive starter
kits depending on discipline to enable
sustainable income generating activities.
FEATURE STORY
South Africa
" 34 traffic point duty officers
were recruited to improve
community safety in
eMbalenhle, Trichardt and
Secunda.
Small business
development
Business skills training
OUTCOMES
" 43 youth from Zamdela
trained for employment
during shutdown activities
in Sasolburg Operations.
Technical and Vocational Education
and Training-to-work skills
" In Inhassoro District, 32 young
people (50% women) were
trained in electrical and
plumbing basics.
" In our Employment and Skills
for Development programme:
Tsholofelo Mokwele, an emerging farmer from
Ekangala, Gauteng North, has conquered youth
unemployment to become an influential individual
in her community. She has contributed immensely
in changing the narrative about youth in the
agricultural industry.
Her life-changing journey started after attending
the Sasol Bridge-to-Work farmer development
programme. She took her grandparents’ farm and
transformed it into a flourishing agricultural
enterprise, whilst putting the knowledge and skills
acquired during the Iphepe Farmer Development
Programme into good use.
" 159 people trained in
" Counselled over 500 distinctive
short-duration courses for
clients and 40 industry-related
agro-processing, cookery,
clients; and
electrical work and plumbing;
"
Supported
over ten local
" 231 graduates attended
businesses in successfully
the workshop on preparing
completing a development
to enter the job market;
programme, resulting in the
" 58 people secured
acquisition of $40,000 in
employment (34 male
business grants.
and 24 female); and
Tsholofelo registered a business which has a
diverse suite of agricultural products which include,
amongst others; vegetables, broilers, cattle and
goats. Tsholofelo said, “The programme provided
me with practical agriculture and business skills
including information on how to start and
operationalise a business with a specific focus
on record-keeping and efficient administration.”
She says this has helped her to manage her small
business into one which is growing.
" 32 graduates secured
internships (18 male
and 14 female).
Tsholofelo is combating youth unemployment and
cultivating a sense of community pride by
employing eight individuals. Her 470-hectare land
includes livestock such as six cattle, 30 goats and
six sheep, as well as 200 broiler population. In
addition, she grows seasonal vegetables such as
Swiss chard, tomatoes, onions and green peppers.
" 19 young people from Govan
Mbeki Municipality have been
trained/skilled in garment
making through Gert Sibande
technical, vocational education
and training college.
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