CAPRICORN TVET COLLEGE

Celebrates Artisan/TVET Month

On 3 February 2014, former Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Mr Mduduzi Manana, launched and declared the next 10 years (2014 – 2024) as the “Decade of the Artisan” while also announcing that the month of August will be known as TVET College Month.

Capricorn TVET College recognises its role as an institution in the creation of artisans in the Limpopo Province, and the celebration of artisans and skilled TVET students remains an important factor in job creation and skills development in South Africa.

TVET Month, meant to familiarise learners and communities with programmes and career pathways offered in the respective public colleges in South Africa, and allows TVET Colleges to intensify their outreach campaigns throughout the month of August by offering quality career information to as many learners and youth Not in Employment Education and Training (NEET) as possible.

Throughout this campaign information about all the programmes in TVET Colleges and their requirements is comprehensively shared not only to prospective students, but also to the general public.

Marking the 9th year, Capricorn TVET College in partnership with all six (6) sister TVET colleges in Limpopo will embark on school visits and roadshow campaigns on the 7th and 8th of August 2023 in both the Ga-Mashashane and Mokomeni Villages,

Capricorn TVET College will visit four (4) schools during Artisan/TVET Month:

• Mamokutupi Secondary School in Mokomeni Village

Student Recruitment

Capricorn TVET College targets prospective students and offers career guidance through the role out of school visits and career exhibitions and expos hosted by different stakeholders in the Capricorn District.

In the second quarter of the year, the College has been to various schools and exhibitions with the aim of offering quality and comprehensive career related information to the youth. The Marketing and Communication Officials, in collaboration with career guidance officers that are based at Polokwane, Seshego, Senwabarwana and Ramokgopa Campus, provide grade 9 to 12 learners with information regarding all programmes available at the four campuses, enrolment requirements, and enrolment processes.

As these career guidance and expos are conducted, information regarding learnerships, bursaries and internships are provided to displaced youth that are currently not in school and have not completed grade 12, as they are eligible for learnerships and apprentice programmes.

Among the exhibitions that Capricorn TVET College has successfully attended in the second quarter to date are:

• Capricorn District Municipality, Sekhukhune

• Khaiso High School Career Exhibition at Ngoako Ramahlodi Hall, Seshego

• The University of Venda, Vhembe District

• Lesedi Information Hub, Seshego Stadium

• Polokwane Show Career Exhibition at Polokwane Cricket Club

• Letaba TVET College Career Exhibition, Tzaneen

• Limpopo Legislature Career Exhibition at Kgobokanang Primary School, Senwabarwana

• Department of Employment and Labour Career Exhibition at Ga-Semenya, and Ga-Hlahla in Moletjie

• Batau Ba Seloane Career Exhibition at Malatane, Zebediela

• Vhembe TVET College Career Exhibition, Makhado

• Capricorn District Municipality Youth Empowerment Expo at Makanye Sports Ground

• Presidential Imbizo Career Exhibition at Motodi Village in Sekhukhune

• Mandela Day Commemoration career exhibition at Maphokwane High School in Mashishimale Village at Mopani

Capricorn TVET College

Open Day

Furthermore, Capricorn TVET College will host an Open Day at the Senwabarwana Campus in the first week of September 2023 to demonstrate to learners the skills that they would acquire if they enrol with accredited public TVET Colleges.

During the Open Day, lecturers and students from Civil Engineering, Mechatronics, IT, Hospitality, Mechanical Engineering, Plant Process Operation, Engineering and Related Design and Civil Engineering bring the machinery and equipment of the programmes to demonstrate to the learners by giving them a real feel of the actual work being done in all the mentioned fields.

The purpose of the Open Day is to expose the learners as prospective students to the programmes and foster their interests for becoming artisans in the near future. The Open Day, expos and exhibitions are successful and effective recruitment strategies as Capricorn TVET College has a high number of applications every semester and has improved the intake of students at all four campuses. 