UXI Artisan Development Centre Roodepoort Phillip Harmse 083 454 6890

Our country and economy is challenged by high unemployment numbers impacting on national growth and prosperity. The most important challenge being the fact that most of our school leaving youth and school leavers do not have work sinc they remain untrained and unqualified. However, it is not only passion, dedication and interest in growth which will secure a job opportunity in the future businesses or industries. The key lies in training and industry recognized or accredited training. Realising that no household, business of industry can be sustained without the essential services of skills occupations, which are not dependant on Generative Pre-Trained Transformers or GPT technology and equipment, human based hand skills such as plumbers, welders, carpenters and even basic home-based health care services, hairdressing and the work of chefs in the hospitality industry remain future careers. Skills training and workplace experience in these scarce and critical occupational careers are offering more accessible public training and these days especially also private training opportunities to school leavers and matriculants as well as to workers such as home care workers, painters, bricklayers, or welding assistants with three or more years’ experience but no formal qualification. Phillip Harmse is the new business development manager of a skills development group, known as U.X.I. Artisan Development as they are passionately contributing towards the national goal to deliver 30 000 newly qualified artisans annually by the year 20230. We are talking to Phillip to find out what these irreplaceable human based occupations are offering the South Africa of tomorrow. Last week they opened a new skills training centre for future artisans in the Rand Leases Industrial Park, next to Florida Lake in Roodepoort.