Rustenburg

Partner(s):

SAIE’s partner in BusinessVENTURES training, the Department of Education (DoE) facilitates the identification of school and regions in need of training and materials. The North West Province forms part of the border between South Africa and Botswana The geographical area of the province is 116180km². The training took place In Moses Kotane West and Moses Kotane East (The Municipal code for Moses Kotane Local Municipality is NW375) and Kgetleng Rivier Local Municipality (Municipal Code NW374). Both Moses Kotane and Kgetleng Rivier local municipalities are in Bojanala district, popularly known as the Bojanala Platinum District (Municipal Code DC37). The majority of the people in Bojanala District (62.56%) in a population of 1 185 325 people speak Setswana. Despite the linguistic differences, the overwhelming majority comprises Black African people, constituting 92.23% of the district’s population. Bojanala’s learner population between grades 1 and 12 in is roughly 877944. The economically active group between 15 and 64 is 781954, compared to 299600 people who are not economically active. Nearly 796466 people have no personal income and a further 53014 have an income below R400. Some 80134 people have no family income. 199028 are unemployed and there are 3211 employers.

Our Involvement:

SAIE provides schools and educators with quality, innovative learning materials (BusinessVENTURES kits) and the requisite training in terms of content knowledge, methodology in Outcomes Based Education (OBE) and entrepreneurial development. SAIE’s BusinessVENTURES materials conform to the Department of Education’s (DoE) curriculum structure classified under the Economic and management Sciences (EMS: Grade 2 to 9) and Business Studies (Grades 10 to 12). Learners are empowered through the quality materials and effective teaching, in order to develop entrepreneurial mindsets and business knowledge. This prepares them for either creating their own jobs or participating in the post school life in a more entrepreneurial way.

Project Progress:

Training for the Rustenburg project took place in May 2005 and August 2005. During the first training which took place at the Royal Bafokeng Plaza in Phokeng, 39 educators from 24 schools attended the training, 3 of which came from the Bafokeng area. Educators were very keen to discover new ways of training and this kept the levels of enthusiasm very high. A further 7 educators from 4 Moses Kotane schools received training in June 2005. During the August training, 58 educators from 29 schools attended. (Most of the educators had attended the grade 10 and grade 11 training therefore they did not have any problems understanding grade 12 methodology.) 50 Business VENTURES kits were dispensed. The first follow-up training was conducted at the Royal Bafokeng Conference Center in July 2005. The second follow-up took place in March 2006. On the 14th of March, 9 educators attended from 9 schools. SAIE remains in contact with the schools to provide educator support for his project.

Funder:

Product:

BusinessVentures

Location:

North West