Bureau Veritas, a 190-year-old French-based service provider that offers testing, inspection and certification to global standards, has launched the Ithemba Trust to educate young rural women as engineers. Ithemba, which means "hope" in Nguni, will mainly identify disadvantaged young black women and fully support them in obtaining university degrees across the science, technology, engineering and maths fields. "This must be a competitive degree that leads to global employment [prospects]," Bureau Veritas vice-president for Southern Africa Sal Govender said on Wednesday. The company operates in 30 African countries and is 51% black-owned in SA. Graduating students would not be required to work for the group or its 400,000 client companies across the world that are involved in sectors including marine, foods, commodities, consumer products, building and infrastructure and oil and petroleum, Govender said. Bureau Veritas would offer graduates placements and teach them "work readiness" ...
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