The Further Education and Training (FET) Colleges are a merger of South Africa’s previous Technical Colleges and Colleges of Further Education under the FET Act 1998. There are 50 FET colleges around the nine South African Provinces. In the Limpopo Province there are seven Colleges with 17 Campuses. 

 

Masetlaoka has been engaged to provide Technical Assistance (TA) Project Management, capacity building and IT systems support to the Limpopo Provincial RECAPITILIZATION programme.

 

The RECAP programme is a ZAR224Mn capacity-building programme to ensure the Limpopo Provincial FET Colleges have sufficient human resources, systems, equipment and infrastructure to deliver the appropriate number of graduates appropriate to the provincial labour and economic markets.

 

The overall purpose of the current FET capacity-building programme in Limpopo is to “Re-Capitalize the seven (7) FET Colleges with 17 Campuses to enable the development of the appropriate skills to address the Growth and Development needs of the economy of the Limpopo Province and the Country. 

 

Specifically the RE-CAP programme has seven (7) strategic capacity building objectives in:

 

Area 1             HR development,

Area 2             IT systems improvement, 

Areas 3-5        Infrastructure development (Upgrade sites, Refurbish buildings, and build new facilities).

Areas 6-7        Equipment/materials purchase for the 13 new NC(V) programmes.

 

MSW project manager for the project is Neil Young who has been with MSW partners for over 15 years at project manager and project director level. Neil has been involved in Institutional Development and capacity building for over the past 30 years. Clients that Neil has managed projects for include the World Bank, European Development Fund, Government Finance Institutions (British Government Development Agency DfID, Norwegian Development NORAD, and the Swedish Development Agency SIDA among others).    Significant Projects have included development of management information and computing systems for the second largest port in Saudi Arabia; managerial capacity building of the principal port of Mozambique; the development of long term leasing and concessional agreements for the transportation sector in Mozambique and Angola; the procurement and commissioning of ferry systems in Mozambique and Uganda; and Institutional Capacity Building in South Africa.