Forest Industries Education

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Forest Industries Education Training Authority
(FIETA)
Simangaliso Mkhwanazi CEO Eli Kodisang
Chairperson Labour CEPPWAWU
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Our Focus

• Manufacture of pulp, paper paperboard
• Mostly in KZN
• SAPPI Mondi
• Manufacture Tissue Converting
• Mostly Gauteng KZN
• Kimberly-Clark, Nampak, SAPPI Mondi
• Diaper manufacturing
• Mainly Gauteng
• Espin manufacturing

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Wood Processing

• Saw doctoring, Wet milling, Lumber drying, Lumber
  grading, Dry milling, Charcoal, Wattle extract,
  Manufacture of veneer sheets plywood, Particle
  board and other panels, Fireboard and chipboard
  products, Truss Manufacturing, Match
  manufacturing, Pallets and bulk bins, Sawmilling
  and preserving of timber
• Mostly in KZN Mpumalanga

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Furniture

• Manufacture of furniture
• Furnishing of ships
• Cane Furniture
• Bedding
• Curtaining Caravan
• Furniture
• Coffins
• Mainly in Gauteng, KZN Western Cape

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Forestry

• Maintenance
• Fire Protection, fire suppression, fire
  prevention
• Forest conservation
• Forest management
• Forestry and tree nurseries
• Harvesting
• Road construction and maintenance
• Transport (short haul and long haul)
• Forest Research

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Forestry

• Plantation Area
• Province Hectares
• KZN 538 474 40,2
• Mpumalanga 526 212 39,3
• E Cape 152 378 11,4
• W Cape 61 660 4,6
• Limpopo 60 451 4,5

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Progress Report NSDS

• Highlights for 2005 2006
• KZN
• KwaMbonambi
• New Venture Creation Project
• FIETA, Mondi Umsobomvu Partnership
• Development of small business for retrenched
  workers

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KZN

• Development of a skills development plan
  Toolkit for small growers
• Training of Forestry contractors
• Silviculture
• Harvesting
• Forest fire fighting / prevention
• Management
• Budgeting Tendering

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KZN

• Research in Solid Wood KZN Economic Cluster
• ABET life skills project for Malmoth farmers
• Paper recycling, Merebank
• Learnerships 291 learners
• Black males (191)
• Black females (100)
• 18.2 (251)
• ESDLE 116 learners

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Eastern Cape

• Chris Hani District Municipality (Wood Cluster)
• Training of Unemployed in Sawmilling
• Training of Bush millers in Business skills
  Saw milling
• Support for Steinhoff at Ugie
• Learnerships 74
• Black males (58)
• Black females (10)
• 18.2 (45)

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Western Cape

• Support for Saasveld Black foresters
• Support for the Furniture Bargaining Council
  (Salt River)
• Support for FurnTech Furniture incubators
• Support for Stellenbosch University Internet
  portal for Small forest sector businesses
• Learnerships 30
• Black males (25)
• Black females (3)
• 18.2 (25)

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Mpumalanga

• Training of Forestry contractors
• Silviculture
• Harvesting
• Forest fire fighting / prevention
• Management
• Budgeting Tendering
• Paper recycling, Nelspruit
• Learnerships 37
• Black males (31)
• Black females (6)
• 18.2 (23)\
• ESDLE 20 learners

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Limpopo

• Training of Forestry contractors
• Silviculture
• Harvesting
• Forest fire fighting / prevention
• Management
• Budgeting Tendering
• Learnerships 2
• Black males (2)
• 18.2 (2)

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Free State

• Support for Furniture SME
• Learnerships 9
• Black males (5)
• Black females (4)
• 18.2 (9)
• ESDLE 40

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North West

• Support for Furniture SME
• Furniture manufacturing training for Marang
  Womens project, Mafikeng
• ESDLE 20 learners

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Northern Cape

• Kimberley
• Training of People with Disabilities
• DEAFSA
• Training in
• Cabinet making
• Wood machining
• Wood polishing

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Gauteng

• Alexander, Tembisa Soweto SME support
• Tshwane Paper recycling
• Soweto SME support / APD
• Daveyton, Duduza Furniture manufacturing
• People with Disabilities (Daveyton)
• Training of Abused Women in Furniture
  manufacturing (Usindiso Ministries)

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Gauteng

• Learnerships 40
• Black males (36)
• Black females (3)
• 18.2 (21)
• ESDLE 20 learners

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Quality Assurance

• Accredited Providers
• KZN 26
• Mpumalanga 11
• Eastern Cape 4
• Limpopo 4
• Western Cape 17
• Gauteng 32
• North West 1
• Northern Cape 2
• Free State 3

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FETs

• Umgungundlovu FET, PMB
• Goldfields FET
• Motheo FET
• Ethekwini FET
• Richtec FET
• Ingwe, Mount Frere
• Ikhala College, Queenstown
• Ekurhuleni FET

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Future Plans for Organisation

• Chris Hani District Municipality
• Furniture Factory / Sawmill Project
• Ukhahlamba District Municipality
• Ugie Project

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