Skills Dev 

Potatoes South Africa’s transformation strategy addresses a critical issue – the support of Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) and Skills development for potato enterprises. Farming enterprises need to create a supportive culture within their organizations to attract new talent and facilitate the development of existing employees, and speed up the progress of talented individuals into key positions within their respective enterprises.

The goals are:

• To increase the meaningful participation of black people in senior, middle and junior management structures of potato enterprises
• To create a workforce that truly represents the racial, ethnic and gender diversity as well as talent of our country
• To support the enterprises in the development of career and learning paths for employees with potential
• To support the development of employees through skills development training that involves Learnership and Skills Programmes
• To identify key talent and develop them through the Tertiary Skills Development Pipeline by funding bursaries, Internship and Workplace Experience programmes to develop black managers.

Bursaries       The Transformation Division launched an Undergraduate Bursary scheme that aims at developing the skills of young farmers in the potato industry through Tertiary Skills Development Pipeline and the Potato Industry Development Trust (PIDT) , acknowledges its responsibility to the broader industry to make a contribution towards ensuring that sufficient post graduates are developed to address the relevant research areas affecting the industry. more...

Farm based training       Potatoes South Africa has been actively involved assisting Farming communities and producers with the implementation of social projects and skills training interventions. There are many Producers who have in isolation, been participating in training through established networks and training providers. All of the above are recognised and applauded. However some of the training that have occurred in isolation was provider driven instead of a demand driven approach... more...