Eastern Cape youth program to bolster job creation

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The Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements has, in an effort to address youth unemployment and skills shortage, devised a youth build program that provides unemployed youth with job training and skills development in the construction industry.

MEC, Helen Sauls-August says the Department facilitates the youth development program within the sector through Municipalities, National Home Builders Registration and the National Youth Development Agency.

She says as part of the national initiative to create empowerment opportunities for the youth, the Department has approached FET Colleges to train the youth further up to NQF Level 6.

Sauls-August says 32 youths are currently enrolled at P.E College for Civil Engineering and 49 for Bricklaying and Plastering.

She says unemployed youth has already built houses in Kirkwood, Chetty, Port St Johns and Mount Pleasant in Fort Beaufort.