Joint Nedbank, MADA and IN2ITechnology learnership takes in 20 graduates
Twenty KwaZulu-Natal IT graduates, who have yet to find employment, are starting an 11-month learnership programme to introduce them to the working world
Lethu Dlamini, a 21-year-old from Umlazi Township who graduated from Mangosuthu University of Technology last year with an IT diploma and majored in software development, says her dream is to start her own company. She was speaking at the ceremony at which the first group of 20 unemployed IT graduates from township and rural areas was admitted into a learnership programme meant to give them work experience. The learnership programme — which comes courtesy of a partnership between the Nedbank Foundation, the non-governmental organisation Moving Ahead Development Agency (MADA), and the private institution IN2ITechnology — will see the graduates spend 11 months in Gauteng at the IN2ITechnology academy from February to December 2017. They will spend the first three months in class and the rest of the learnership in different companies where they will gets hand-on experience. Dlamini has not been able to secure a job since graduating. Her dream is to establish an enterprise that makes a ...
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