SGB-Cape Rope Access, a division of Waco Africa, offers specialist rope access services and has stated that there is a shortage of skills in the “work at height” industry in South Africa. 

A specialist field of work – and not for the faint-hearted – there are significant advantages to using “rope access” over traditional access methods such as scaffolding and mobile elevated working platforms. Apart from the ease of access to hard-to-reach locations, utilising rope access offers an affordable alternative to other methods, such as building scaffolding, and can be set up quickly, efficiently and with minimal disruption. 

Cobus Joubert, manager at SGB-Cape Rope Access, explained, “Say for example a light bulb, 40 meters in the air at a construction or mining site, needs to be changed. Instead of orchestrating an entire operation that requires scaffolding to be built – which includes a number of heavy-duty vehicles, drivers, builders, going through an organisation’s supply chain process – and then of course everything has to be taken down again, a simple task of changing the light bulb can take several weeks or months. On the other hand, a couple of rope access technicians can do the same job in a matter of days.” 

Mr Joubert continued, “Here in South Africa we have a multitude of industries that are already using rope access technicians, such as construction, power, oil and gas, banner signage, industrial maintenance and telecommunications industries. However, we find that we have a serious lack of skill and qualified technicians and would encourage adventurous souls to actively pursue it as a career. To become a rope access technician is not as daunting as most people think, and the first entry-level qualification is aimed at individuals with little or zero previous experience.” 

IRATA Training

SGB Cape Offshore (Pty) Ltd is an accredited provider of IRATA (Industrial Rope Access Trade Association) industrial rope access training courses. IRATA is recognised as the world’s leading authority on industrial rope access and directs and regulates the training of all workers seeking an IRATA qualification through its' accredited providers. To find out more and to register for IRATA level 1, 2 or 3, please visit https://www.sgbcaperopeaccess.co.za/What-We-Do/IRATA-TRAINING-COURSES/IRATA-Courses-Offered. 

About SGB-Cape Rope Access

SGB-Cape Rope Access is an operating division of SGB-Cape, one of South Africa’s leading service providers of access scaffolding and industrial access-based maintenance such as thermal insulation and corrosion protection. SGB-Cape is part of Waco International, a focused equipment rental and industrial services business with operations in Africa (South Africa and other sub-Saharan African countries), Australasia (Australia and New Zealand) and the United Kingdom. The Group provides services in the areas of formwork, shoring and scaffolding, insulation, painting and blasting, hydraulic and suspended access platforms, relocatable modular buildings, portable sanitation products and integrated hygiene services. https://sgbcape.co.za/

Since its inception in 2020, The Marketing Mill has trained nearly 50 young people in content writing, SEO, web development, and digital marketing, hiring more than half of them. And they plan to double this number by 2022 by offering paid internships and SEO and writing courses.

The company was founded in South Africa but has since spread its roots to other places in the world. Many members of the team have operated from places such as Greece, Bali, Amsterdam, Spain and the USA, but most are back in SA now.

In 2020 Travel Tractions expanded its business offering to include The Marketing Mill and improve its rapidly growing internship program. At the same time, the agency created and implemented an online content marketing course with a strong focus on SEO copywriting to be used internally.

Now in 2021, a second course focussed on SEO has been created to advance the internship offering even further. As explained by founder, Matt Davison, "we are very passionate about showing people how to make an income online. And when Covid-19 hit our travel marketing agency, we had a lot of free time on our hands. It made a lot of sense to develop a course to formalize our learnings in a structured way".

The team has plans to create even more courses and release them to the public at a later date to educate even more people. To stay in the loop on all things related to the digital marketing course, you can sign up for course updates on learn.themarketingmill.com.

More about the paid internship 

As many graduates will tell you, finding an entry-level position after graduation is no easy task, especially if you have no prior experience. Standing out from thousands of other applicants is nearly impossible without a giant neon sign saying “pick me”. 

Most graduates also dream of traveling the world, but can’t afford to do so without working. With The Marketing Mill, not only can you earn money but you can also work from anywhere in the world. It is not unheard of to find Travel Tractions team members typing away while camping in the bush or at a beachside cafe. 

With a focus on learning and remote working, an internship at Travel Tractions offers the perfect entry-level job for graduates or even students. With part-time and full-time options as well as flexible hours, gaining work experience and knowledge about digital marketing has never been so convenient for young adults. 

Plus, the interns get one-on-one mentorship from a senior team member during their first six months, helping them to expand their skills and deepen their knowledge. During this time they learn a range of tasks including writing, editing, SEO, social media, and other aspects of digital marketing. And if the individual shows dedication and ability, there is a potential for a longer-term employment. 

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No answers or assistance from CETA for 5-year certification delay.

Why must an accredited training provider resort to legal action for CETA to print learners’ certificates?CAD4ALL was founded in 2008 and embarked by selling a new alternative CAD & BIM Software which is developed in Greece, this software provided a solution in 2008 to the AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) industry in South Africa which is still on the increase today. After adding value to so many clients in the AEC Corporate space, the dire need was made apparent by industry for CAD4ALL to apply for training accreditation so that the companies can benefit from the SDL funds they are paying monthly to the CETA.CAD4ALL applied for accreditation to CETA in 2012 and was granted full accreditation in late 2013. The 2014 academic year immediately led off with a class of enthusiastic, private students and we were too awarded a DG (discretionary grant) learnership project funded by CETA, in which we had to pay the learners a monthly stipend for 12 months.

From the outset this engagement with CETA was disconcerting if not horrific.

Dealing with the construction CETA from then until current has been nothing short of disastrous leading to consequences of catastrophic devastation. The incompetence and poorly led CETA as our ETQA, has caused us too many an embarrassment, negative association and presents itself as a rhetoric of smokescreen and mirrors to the public not familiar with the qualifications of Architecture, CAD and Draughting. An injustice to the very industry they are supposed to service.The CAD4ALL experience will be outlined and this intentionally will unveil the magnitude of how inefficient and discriminatory this ETQA, CETA is.

By early 2017, CAD4ALL still received ZERO certificates from CETA since 2014, as well as no accreditation site visits, no JPMT meetings, continuous loss of documentation and procrastination all the while we sent ongoing communication which went ignored. This ignorance resulted in addition to a physical visit to the CETA head office in Midrand, JHB to Robert Semenya who was the acting CEO whom CAD4ALL was scheduled to and met in January 2018.In a nutshell, because we received no positive response to the delayed certificates, no re-accreditation visits for renewals of certain qualifications, failed DG projects and outstanding funds owed to CAD4ALL the necessary action was pursued. The pressure was on to meet and fly up on the 31 January 2018, and I travelled once again to Johannesburg and met with acting CEO of CETA, Mr Robert Semenya on the 31 January 2018. Robert was assigned to handle our meeting.CAD4ALL detailed ALL the damaging issues we were experiencing with CETA for the years prior and he promised to prioritise, and have it all sorted in 60 days. CAD4ALL is in possession of Roberts email that confirms all the items that we discussed on the 31 January 2018 and his reproach to it. Shockingly up until this point,19 months later, he has made unkept promises to CAD4ALL, his stakeholder.

Robert only responded under duress to meet in Cape Town in July 2019 when we had our attorneys send him a Letter of Demand. He conveniently orchestrated to meet as he was in Cape Town to attend a budget speech for the SETA’s, yet his contingencies were fruitless and only worsened in my opinion, his lack of credibility by virtue. The solution he offered and we at the time thought favourable, was to engage with acting COO, Innocent Ngezi which untimely dawdled on issues and was no asset in any manner. His procrastination and severe lack of understanding meant there again was NO progress. This means that another chunk is added to the 5 years, of CETA doing nothing.

After CAD4ALL has invested so much over the years and being so advanced and long in an industry like this, it will be shameful not to expose the negative effects the CETA has had on our business and the AEC industry with our related qualifications.

This incompetency and insufficiency of support is a skills disaster and a playball with learner careers. There is a massive trail indicative of how over the consecutive years, CETA continuously paid us and learners’ months late resulting in them leaving the projects and losing out on other opportunities. CETA’s actions are repetitive with other training providers in the past and is in direct contradiction of current CETA, acting CEO Mr Robert Semenya, utterances he expressed in the newspaper article of 22 February 2018 Knowledgeable ETQA’s understand the importance of co-operation with their stakeholder so that a progressive relationship will be fostered to ensure a seamless flow of skilled individuals. The very industry CAD4ALL services with integrity and recognition in its private capacity.

Many individuals now from these impoverished communities will now lose the opportunity to capitalise on this scarce and critical skill.

Construction CETA is light years behind the other SETAS resulting in an obsolete and dysfunctional operation.Mr Robert Semenya and CETA and their interaction with CAD4ALL over this drawn out period effectively subverts the objectives initiated by the Skills Development Act of 1998.

CAD4ALL has an esteemed reputation and a positive brand image in industry that was built over the years but our continued alliance with CETA incompetence has thus caused irreversible damage and unwanted chaos. This public negativity, lack of accountability and downward spiral created by CETA was the trigger point to activate migration.CAD4ALL has evolved to a level that has changed the playing field in industry and for this very reason we have a clearer view of what the future of this critical and scarce skill will look like.

Our vision will be unattainable if CETA remains our ETQA of choice so strategically CAD4ALL positioned itself to vigorously migrate to DHET where our value proposition will be enabled more effectively with subject matter experts.CAD4ALL was recently nominated and selected in the top ten as a finalist in a national design competition where our competitors derived from top universities and institutions in SA. CAD4ALL’s passion in education is displayed in the many accolades it receives and it will not be tarnished or dominated by an inept, substandard Construction CETA.

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The CAD4ALL EGD Academy linking our graduates to our corporate clients CAD4ALL is the leading provider of CAD design education and a significant provider of employees to industry. Cad4all Career and Design College is one of Cape Town’s first private accredited design institution within the AEC industry. Offering a unique, professional environment in lectures taught by working professionals who are experts in their specific fields.

The CAD4ALL curriculum offers subject matter experts in specialist areas bringing extensive industry experience thus providing an opportunity to bring your creative passion to life.With more accredited qualifications offered in 2020, CAD4ALL pioneered and set up the first EGD Academy for all Grade 12 learners creating a hub for them to access resources, information and design software within the AEC industry. CAD4ALL College focuses on teaching in single discipline specific areas only.

Organisations that offer a wide array of qualifications from IT to Business, and design only as an abstraction from their product offering usually achieve generic competencies for their learners because of the lack of technical specialization.

CAD4ALL is the leading provider of design education and a significant provider of potential employees to industry for thee past 11 years Through the CAD4ALL corporate database and as a single point of contact the learners from our academic institution may now seamlessly connect to a variety of business opportunities for possible employment.

CAD4ALL offers expertise in which AEC companies can access the talent pool of graduates at no cost.  Come and join a 11-year CAD4ALL AEC history where you gain design experience professionally from the ground up.

Work directly with qualified lecturers and career advisors to collaborate a design portfolio to develop employment goals and a path to get there.

CAD4ALL the home of AEC Education designed for you in the AEC industry, Study at CAD4ALL both inContact and online at the most competitive tuition fees in Cape town.Get social and visit us on our Open Day on the 31 August 2019 and register on our website www.cad4all.co.za

Join Us as we unpack the provisions of the new Carbon Tax Bill

The Carbon Tax Bill which has been debated for the past 8 years has finally been signed into law and has been effective since 01 June 2019.

The Bill imposes a liability on the greenhouse gases emitted during the production of goods and services. The nominal tax rate is R120 per tonne of carbon emitted, although with the various tax-free allowances the rate could drop to between R6 and R48 per tonne.

Allowances included are:

• a basic tax-free allowance of 60 percent for all activities,
• a 10 percent process and fugitive emissions allowance
• a maximum 10 percent allowance for companies using carbon offsets to reduce their tax liability
• a performance allowance of up to five percent for companies reducing the emissions intensity of their activities

Time: 09h00-16h00
Address: 36 Wierda Road West, Sandton
Cost: R2950.00 excl VAT
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Included in the cost

• Comprehensive course manual
• Legislative documents
• Refreshments and lunch
• Certificate of attendance

About Your Expert Presenter

Yasmine Miemiec is a qualified Carbon Tax Analyst and a Director of 5 Inc, a waste transformation and BEEE project implementation organization.

Yasmine has a qualification in Environmental Management and Third World Development from the Open University (UK), is a Climate Leader in AI Gore's Climate Reality Corp and is a graduate of the International Labour Organisation's Green Jobs training.

The CAD4ALL Career & Design College have embarked on advancing the EGD(Engineering, Graphics and Design) curriculum via the CAD4ALL EGD Academy directed to senior schools offering EGD as a subject to Grade 10 to Grade 12.

It became apparent that pupils doing tertiary engineering and design studies, generally struggled owing to the fact that many students graduated from schools where this subject(EGD) is not offered at all or is poorly taught. This places  a strain on the individual as they simply cannot cope with the drawing component of the course and therefore found difficulty with the drawings segment thereof. Further to this, the Cad4all College has assisted grade 12 learners individually seeking assistance with the drawing component.

Considering the challenges faced by schools, teachers and pupils, the CAD4ALL EGD CAD Academy as a specialist training service provider of AutoCAD’s Computer-Aided Drawings/Design, enables your school to  implement and manage your own fully supported EGD CAD Academy at the school.  Benefits partnering with CAD4ALL Career and Design College:  Free installation of Academic licencing of AutoCAD & 4MCAD Software. 3 x Free courses to the EGD Teacher to (waiting on Mario for that term for grading of teacher ). Free Technical Support for the EGD educator via the Cad4all EGD online portal Pupils have access to Free EGD workshops monthly.

(Limited space available)book online Pupils have access to the EGD Online portal Pupils have access to CERTIPORTS International Examination through CAD4ALL. Pupils receive preferential enrollment when registering for post matric studies at CAD4ALL. REGISTER SCHOOL NOWWe look forward to working with your school in this regard, please visit our website for more information with our college contact details.

CAD4ALL Career and Design College is a Private FET College with operations in Bellville and Claremont respectively.  Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us. Kind Regards

Cad4all Corporate Solutions (CCS)established in Cape Town is a proud division of Cad4all Career and Design College. CCS was founded as a consulting company that specializes in partnering with corporates to provide insight and direction to guide B-BEEE implementation. Our Corporate Strategic Training and Consulting solutions division with industry experts enables us to create the best strategic transformation plan that will help corporates to maximise the most out of their B-BEEE. In any business in South Africa a BEE scorecard is an important element hence encouraging business owners to understand the scoring and value thereof.

The higher your BEE score the better chances of your business gaining opportunities with favourable tax gains CAD4ALL is a 100% black woman owned learning  institution providing your business with access to 11 years of experience in the education and corporate sector with our focus on Skills Development, Supplier and Enterprise Development as well as successful Socio-Economic Development initiatives to-date.The college has invested in a Learnership Management System (LMS) which enables your business to provide employees with access to online Skills Development learnerships.

The LMS online platform is designed to ensure that employees are upskilled without having a direct impact on day to day productivity. The employees are able access learnerships based on his/her own time schedule. The recent changes to the BEE codes of good practice require companies to spend more money on skills development with a specific focus on spending money on skills development for unemployed people.

Through our recruitment process, we are able to provide unemployed people that will meet your business criteria, upskill the person in order to meet the minimum requirements of your business. CAD4ALL delivers on benefits in order to align your business to meet the requirements as defined by the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act of 2003 and encompasses the elements of: CAD4ALL Career and Design College offers a solution that will ensure that you get all the points you deserve, as well as maximising available rebates to reduce the actual cost of training.Skills development is a long-term plan.

It needs to be implemented consistently, measured regularly and adjusted as requirements change. The Seta’s (our speciality), as well as SARS, provide grants and tax allowances for certain training. CAD4ALL Career and Design College will help you implement training solutions that is fit for purpose, as well as maximise the financial benefit to your company.

Equity Management, Employment Equity, Skills Development, Preferential Procurement, Enterprise Development and Socio Economic Development.Skills Development in South Africa has become a strategic priority for businesses that wish to attain or retain an acceptable BEE level and also meet the requirements of the Skills Development Act. With the revised BEE scorecard, companies can earn maximum skills development points if they spend the required 3% or 6% of their annual payroll on skills development programmes such as SETA-accredited training initiatives (depending on the business category).

The Skills Development Levy (SDL) is payable by employers in different sectors of the economy and serves to fund learning and skills development programmes for socially and economically marginalised groups in South Africa.Although based in Cape Town we provide services to clients nationwide specializing in skills development and training

This Autodesk Revit Essentials course provides an ideal starter for Revit for users from any industry and background. Delegates learn the fundamental concepts of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and using Revit tools for architectural and structural design.

The three-day programme combines lecture, demonstration and hands-on practice providing a thorough introduction to the softwares features. At the end of the training, delegates will have developed a comprehensive understanding of the techniques needed to design, analyse and visualise high quality buildings with Autodesk Revit from start to finish.CAD4ALL is the leader in CAD Design.

We offer full qualifications in Architectural Draughting, Technology, Interior architecture and more design related education. CAD4ALL offers these qualifications full time from our branches in Claremont and Bellville, Cape Town as well as online, this in extension to our nationwide EGD(Engineering, Graphic and Design) hubs. CAD4ALL is an accredited training institution with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) as well as across the various SETA.

Accredited CAD and BIM Training will be offered nationwide by CAD4ALL either online or via our nationwide hubs.CAD4ALL in addition, is an international exam centre for AutoCAD and REVIT and have implemented CAD design drawings offices on large scale projects which involved the Gautrain project involving clients like ACSA, POWERGROUP, ENGEN and more.

Conducting business with CAD4ALL also opens companies up to a host of extra benefits like tax rewards for staff training as well as improving on B-BBEE scorecard points .Visit our website www.cad4all.co.za      

 All CAD4ALL CAD Design products and accredited Training contributes to your B-BBEE Scorecard  IDEA is the low-cost alternative to Revit® or ArchiCAD® yet easier and faster to use and significantly more affordable to purchase and maintain.4M Idea is a revolutionary CAD software that is 100% DWG & 100% IFC Compatible.

IDEA Architecture is the powerful BIM software for 3D & 2D Architectural design, Rendering and Animation, as well as for 4D Scheduling and 5D Costing.

The need for 4m IDEA Architecture was born out of the experience of CAD4ALL spending countless hours searching for a cost effective and efficient CAD software equivalent to its counterparts, AutoCAD and ArchiCAD. 4m IDEA Architecture allows its users to function efficiently at a fraction of the cost, with many users generated and converted the world over The new version of IDEA includes several additional enhancements for drawing, documentation, and site modelling in the form of more options, dialog enhancements, and new commands.

Overall, the re-engineered new generation goes a long way towards strengthening its BIM capabilities while retaining its key strengths of AutoCAD compatibility and low cost. IDEA’s interface is not as sophisticated as the more expensive BIM applications by vendors such as Autodesk, Bentley, and GRAPHISOFT, but it is an excellent lower-cost alternative which makes it very popular in several countries around the world that are just starting to transition from CAD to BIM.

Cad4all is an accredited training institution with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) as well as across the various SETA based in Cape Town. Accredited CAD and BIM Training will be offered nationwide by CAD4ALL either online or via our nationwide hubsCAD4ALL are leaders in CAD training and an international Autodesk CERTIPORT centre.

We offer various CAD Training industry related and relevant to the clients’ needs including AutoCAD and Revit. You will find an ever-growing client list featuring the product, IDEA 2019 where we can offer the BIM fraternity of South Africa an affordable, flexible and world class BIM Software at a fraction of the cost especially in this overall bad economy.If you feel that you are overspending, have a look at our product launch offer and trial our software for free.

Conducting business with CAD4ALL also opens companies up to a host of extra benefits like tax rewards for staff training as well as improving on B-BBEE scorecard points.On my part, “I find it amazing that a small company like 4M headquartered in Greece, which lacks the marketing muscle and developmental resources of larger companies, can develop such a useful product from an open-source platform that is helpful to millions of AEC professionals around the world.

Most of whom cannot afford the more expensive applications that are prevalent in wealthy countries.” 4M may not earn high marks for innovation, but it is way up there when it comes to making a global impact through perseverance and hard work. CAD software does not only have to cater for the niche. Download a free trial version of IDEA from our website www.cad4all.co.za to get you started and read the full version of the AEC Bytes review of IDEA Architecture 2019 http://www.aecbytes.com/review/2019/IDEA19.html

Looking to gain skills in AutoCAD without any prior CAD knowledge? Look no further as Cad4all is at your disposal!

This AutoCAD Essentials course provides beginners with a comprehensive introduction to the AutoCAD software, giving candidates all of the skills needed to produce high quality 2D drawings.

Hands-on practical exercises are used to create 2D production drawings and provide individuals with a thorough understanding of the principal AutoCAD drawing commands and techniques. These techniques can be applied across a broad spectrum of industries.CAD4ALL is the leader in CAD Design. We offer full qualifications in Architectural Draughting, Technology, Interior architecture and more design related education.

CAD4ALL offers these qualifications full time from our branches in Claremont and Bellville, Cape Town as well as online, this in extension to our nationwide EGD (Engineering, Graphic and Design) hubs. CAD4ALL is an accredited training institution with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) as well as across the various SETA.

Accredited CAD and BIM Training will be offered nationwide by CAD4ALL either online or via our nationwide hubs.

CAD4ALL in addition, is an international exam centre for AutoCAD and REVIT and have implemented CAD design drawings offices on large scale projects which involved the Gautrain project involving clients like ACSA, POWERGROUP, ENGEN and more.

Conducting business with CAD4ALL also opens companies up to a host of extra benefits like tax rewards for staff training as well as improving on B-BBEE scorecard points.Visit our website www.cad4all.co.za