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• South Africa legislative framework for workforce skills development.
• The National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS) is the overarching policy document that guides South Africa's approach to skills development.
• Occupation Quality Framework (OQF)

  Design, implement, assess occupation qualifications including trades
• SE TA (Sector Education and Training Act) reports on skills development Act using OFO codes and employment equity
• For further education and training Framework

  • CHE QSF
  • Council for Higher Education (CHE)
  • UMALUSI
• National Skills Development Plan aims to improve skills development in terms of section 9 of the Skills Development Act
• SAQA was established in terms of the SAQA Act which continued with the replacement of SAQA by NQF
• Councils

  • SAQA
  • NQF
  • GFE TOST
• SAQA

  Registers qualifications and standards on the national qualification framework and ensures that the training and education delivered enables teams to reach qualifications and standards
• White paper on the nation and the post-School education and training are important for those who want to explore national ideas further for their own interest
• Legislation (the National Qualifications Framework Act of 2008 and subsequent amendments) provide for the national qualifications framework and responsibilities of the Minister of Higher Education and Training
• The National Qualifications Framework is a comprehensive system approved by the Minister for the classification, registration, and publication of quality national qualifications with 3 qualifications frameworks
• The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) is responsible for building the necessary capacity for effective monitoring, evaluation, and support of the entire Skills Development System
• Post-School Education and Training (PSET) is for education and training for people who have left school or for adults who have never been to school but require educational opportunities
• National Skills Authority (CMSA) is a strategic body in terms of the Skills Development Act that advises the Minister on national policies, strategies, or plans and regularly reviews the effectiveness of the governance structures and performance of the system at large in South Africa
• 80% allocated a portion of money towards the administrative search for sector skills planning and QCTO
• National targets

  • 85% Black (African, Coloured, Indian)
  • 54% women
• SETA & ETQA


  • National skills
  • Funding
  • Economic transformation of black people in SA economy
• National targets
• 80% of learning in the organizations
• Economic transformation to enhance the skills development
• D 53 of 2003
• The Skills Development Act promotes education and training in the workplace
• PWD (People with Disabilities)
• Legislation Employment Equality
• Skills Development Act A90 of 1998
• Skills Development Levies Act provides development that is distributed or used
• Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment
• BBBEE codes previously disadvantaged groups in the economy
• SETA develops sector skill plans involving research and information gathering to promote learning including workplace learning in the sectors/industries
• It governs the National Skills Authority and National Skills Fund
• SETA

  • Education training authorities established in terms of the Skills Development Act and they represent industrial sectors such as wholesales, retails, food and construction sectors
• It governs the Skills Development Levies as well as Sector Education Training Authorities and responsibilities
• ETQA is responsible for monitoring, auditing of national standards
• QCTO implements quality issues and gathers labor market information and training provision in planning to meet the country's needs
• First industrial revolution explain what happened there
• Labour/employment relationship


  • Commonality is found in the fact that both the employer and the employee - and the State, for that matter - have a vested interest in the continued profitable existence of the undertaking
• Commonality of interest


  A certain commonality of interest in any relationship
• Cooperation forms the basis of the relationship even if people do not think so
• In the employment relationship

  Each party needs the other to achieve their own ends