City welcomes 19 graduates into Infrastructure Skills Development Grant Programme

The City of Cape Town’s Corporate Services Directorate has proudly welcomed the appointment of 19 graduates as part of its Infrastructure Skills Development Grant Programme.

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“The appointment of these 19 graduates into the City’s Infrastructure Skills Development Grant Programme is to enhance the City’s capacity in training unemployed graduates, thus nurturing a pool of skilled professionals,” says Alderman Theresa Uys. “The programme plays a vital role in equipping graduates with specific scarce skills, abilities and knowledge. We will be empowering these youngsters with three-year contracts that will lay the foundation for them to register with statutory councils and bodies such as ECSA, SAGC, SACNASP and SACPLAN.”

The City’s Infrastructure Skills Development Grant Programme (ISDG) received over 3 035 graduate applications. Only 116 graduates were shortlisted to take part in the recruitment process.

This number was whittled down to just 19 young graduates with diverse qualifications crucial for infrastructure development, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Town Planning, Process Technology, Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Groundwater, Mechanical Engineering, Science GIS and Chromatography.

These graduates will get the chance to learn from professionals within the organisation and grow their work experience in research, planning, design, implementation and management of infrastructure projects.

The graduates come from across the metro including Khayelitsha, Athlone, Bellville, Mfuleni, Rosebank, Nyanga, Claremont, Kuils River, Delft, Mitchells Plain, Observatory, Brackenfell, Eikendal, Sunridge, Parklands and two are from as far as Ga-Mphahlele in the province of Limpopo and Butterworth in the Eastern Cape.

The full list of graduates

Source: Media Office, City of Cape Town