Articles about skills development

Vodacom partners tech firms to upskill 1m young Africans

Together with AWS, Microsoft, Skillsoft and other collaborating organisations, Vodacom aims to bridge the digital skills gap across eight African countries.

Learners compete codeX Skills for Digital Future programme

By making online coding accessible on a smartphone, codeX creates a more inclusive path to careers across the digital economy.

ITWeb TV: Cisco Networking Academy sets large skills target

Since inception, the academy has trained 411 000 students in South Africa, says Cisco’s Ndileka Stuurman.

Google products, services add R118bn to SA’s economy

Google SA helped generate new revenue for local businesses, non-profits, publishers, creators and developers in 2023, it says.

Top SA performers recognised in IITPSA Computer Programming Olympiad

Over 5 000 pupils from 159 schools nationwide entered the 2024 Programming Olympiad.

Breakthrough partnership set to boost rural economic development

CAPACITI, a tech career accelerator, launches a new satellite hub in Hazyview, Mpumalanga, in partnership with Good Work Foundation.

WeThinkCode adds data engineering, cloud computing electives

The software development academy partners the Jobs Fund on courses to equip the next generation of tech professionals.

China to assist SA to address ‘skills mismatch’

Over 100 South African students will head to China to study scarce and critical skills of the future, reveals the higher education department.

Collective X opens applications for digital skills initiative

The skills development non-profit urges the business community to register employees for its digital skills training programmes.

AWS reaffirms commitment to SA’s infrastructure, job creation

Multinational cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services estimates that by 2029, it will have pumped a total of R46 billion into its South African business.

SA must deliver education to the gadget, says deputy minister

An ICT-driven platform can get more young people in TVET and community college post-school education, says Buti Manamela.

Pnet, Code for Change upskill thousands with coding skills

Online recruitment platform, Pnet’s partnership with Code for Change has helped upskill over 530 000 youth across Africa with IT skills.