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| Overview of SETA |
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| AgriSETA covers all the economic sub sectors previously demarcated
to PAETA (Primary Agriculture) and SETASA (Secondary Agriculture). As the
list of sub sectors is identified by their SIC codes, is quite extensive,
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- All types of farming such as horticulture, animal husbandary, game,
fish, crop and mixed farms
- Slaughtering and handling of meat and livestock products – red meat
and poultry (including egg production)
- Processing of fibre, tea & coffee, macadamia nuts and tobacco
- Packing, drying, liquefying, exporting and importing fruit
- Milling, manufacture, storage and handling of sugar and grain products
and starch
- Animal feeds and pet foods
- Sales and distribution of agricultural raw materials and other farming
inputs and requisites
- Agricultural research
- Pest Control
- Seed production and marketing
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The Minister of Labour, after consultation with the National Skills
Development Authority, has under section 9(1) of the Skills Development Act,
1998 (Act No. 97 of 1998) read with Government Notice No. R.1082 of 7
September 1999 as amended, established the Sector Education and Training
Authorities (SETAs) as indicated in the Schedule 1 from 01 July 2005 to 31
March 2010 with a jurisdiction as indicated in schedule 2 of Government
Notice No. R.656. The functions of AgriSeta are inter alia to: |
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- develop a sector skills plan within the framework of the national
skills development strategy;
- implement its sector skills plan by establishing learnerships, approving
workplace skills plans, allocating grants as well as monitoring education
training in the sector;
- promote learnerships by identifying workplaces for practical work
experience, supporting the development of learning materials, improving
the facilitation of learning and assisting in the conclusion of
learnership agreements;
- register learnership agreements;
- obtain accreditation from the South African Qualifications Authority;
- collect and disburse the skills development levies in its sector;
- liaise with the National Skills Authority on the national skills
development policy, the national skills development strategy as well as
its sector skills plan;
- report to the Director-General of Labour on its income and expenditure
as well as the implementation of it sector skills plan;
- liaise with the employment services of the Department of Labour and any
education body established under any law regulating education in the
Republic of South Africa to improve information about employment
opportunities and information between education training providers and the
labour market;
- appoint staff necessary for the performance of its functions; and
- perform any other duties imposed by the Skills Development Act and the
Skills Development Levies Act or consistent with the purposes thereof.
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