Eastern Cape Premier Phumulo Masualle has just returned from leading a visit aimed at strengthening the economic and diplomatic ties with South Korea.
He left the province in the capable hands of a woman, acting premier Helen Sauls, to lead the high-level delegation to strengthen ties with a country led by a woman president.
A few months ago, the premier committed to establishing direct support to youth programs via the creation of a youth unit in his office. South Korea places a premium on the education of its youth population and has 65% of its citizens in the 25- to 34-year-old cohort with bachelor degrees. This figure is the highest in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development zone.
Our further education and training colleges, together with technical, vocational, educational and training colleges, as well as skills education training authorities, stand to benefit directly from the South Korean visit. Agreements reached will ensure that outputs from these institutions contribute to a much broader skills base.
Trade, investment and skills development forms the backbone of the relations between South Africa’s “Home of Legends” province and South Korea.
Masualle indicated in last year’s state of the province address (Sopa) that “the strategic logic of our infrastructure programme in the province will also ensure we prioritise linkages with mineral producing regions in the country to promote large scale industrialisation in the province”.
This will stand as a key output of this strategic interaction with our South Korean counterparts. South Korea’s techno- and agri-parks are better equipped to share their expertise with our own home-grown IDZ institutions. The province may register successes in the near future, especially in its revitalisation of our Magwa and Majola tea estates which were boosted by R15-million through a recent provincial executive committee resolution.
True to Masualle’s closing remarks in his Sopa in February this year, “We too in the Eastern Cape are captains of our souls; we too are masters of our fate.”
Siyaqhuba!
Nomfanelo Kota is a communications manager in the office of the premier.
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He left the province in the capable hands of a woman, acting premier Helen Sauls, to lead the high-level delegation to strengthen ties with a country led by a woman president.
A few months ago, the premier committed to establishing direct support to youth programs via the creation of a youth unit in his office. South Korea places a premium on the education of its youth population and has 65% of its citizens in the 25- to 34-year-old cohort with bachelor degrees. This figure is the highest in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development zone.
Our further education and training colleges, together with technical, vocational, educational and training colleges, as well as skills education training authorities, stand to benefit directly from the South Korean visit. Agreements reached will ensure that outputs from these institutions contribute to a much broader skills base.
Trade, investment and skills development forms the backbone of the relations between South Africa’s “Home of Legends” province and South Korea.
Masualle indicated in last year’s state of the province address (Sopa) that “the strategic logic of our infrastructure programme in the province will also ensure we prioritise linkages with mineral producing regions in the country to promote large scale industrialisation in the province”.
This will stand as a key output of this strategic interaction with our South Korean counterparts. South Korea’s techno- and agri-parks are better equipped to share their expertise with our own home-grown IDZ institutions. The province may register successes in the near future, especially in its revitalisation of our Magwa and Majola tea estates which were boosted by R15-million through a recent provincial executive committee resolution.
True to Masualle’s closing remarks in his Sopa in February this year, “We too in the Eastern Cape are captains of our souls; we too are masters of our fate.”
Siyaqhuba!
Nomfanelo Kota is a communications manager in the office of the premier.
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