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Non Profit Company Empowering Disadvantaged Communities

Non Profit Company Empowering Disadvantaged Communities

Limpopo Jewellery Cluster

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Limpopo Jewellery Cluster: Jewellery Business & Technical Incubator (LJC)

‘South Africa’s largest Development Project in the Jewellery Sector’

Location

Polokwane, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Cost

R7-mil to start with, Project grew to R 17-mil

Donors

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Duration

01/03/2008 to Present

Project Objectives

To establish the largest B-BBEE Jewellery Manufacturing, Training & SMME Development Project in the Limpopo Province.

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Project Outcomes

  • Vukani Established the largest B-BBEE Jewellery Project in the Limpopo Province;
  • The centre was built from the ground up, on a greenfields site in Polokwane;
  • 34 young jewellers completed their training, of whom…
  • 18 were established as SMME businesses;
  • An additional 46 SMMEs completed their up-skills training;
  • Short listed for the SEED Awards 2011 for Social & Environmental Entrepreneurship;
  • International Association of Business Communicators African Gold Quill Award (2009);
  • Silver PRISM Award (2009).

 

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Ekurhuleni Jewellery Project (EJP)

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Location

Ekurhuleni, Gauteng Province, South Africa

Cost

R7-mil

Donors

Rand Refinery - R 370-k

Provincial Government - R 150-k

Ekurhuleni Municipality - R 100-k

The DTI - R 80-k

Duration

01/05/2009 to Present

Project Objectives

To establish the largest B-BBEE Jewellery Manufacturing, Training & SMME Development Project in the Gauteng Province.

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Project Outcomes

  • Vukani Established the largest B-BBEE Jewellery Project in the Gauteng Province;
  • Six HDI SMMEs established;
  • Twenty full time learnerships – 18 months;
  • Four independent jewellery businesses set up;
  • Incubates set up set up one of the first independent jewellery stores in Soweto;
  • Trainee pieces designed & manufactured selected for the BASA Awards.

 

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UmjindiJewellery Project

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Location

Barberton, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

Cost

R 9.8-mil

Donors

Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund - R 2.1-mil

African Pioneer Mining - R 3.5-mil

National Development Agency - R 1.4-mil

Barberton Mines - R 2.8-mil

Duration

2002 to Present

Project Objectives

Setting up a jewellery manufacturing & training project – downstream beneficiation.

Establishing tourism art and trade centre and Espresso Coffee Shop.

Establishment of most successful high-end jewellery project in SA – LOSA Jewels (London – South Africa).

Project Outcomes

  • Huge impact on training of rural HDIs;
  • Tourism award received for contribution to tourism for Barberton and sales for local artists;
  • Represented Mpumalanga at the world summit for sustainable development;
  • Hailed as the best practice LED project for Mpumalanga;
  • Two learners produced designs selected for African Pioneer Mining export jewellery range.

 

The Job Shop Artisan Up-Skills Training in Scarce & Critical Skills

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Location

eMalahleni, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

Cost

R800-k (Phase I)

Donors

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Duration

2013 to Present

Project Objectives

Registration; Quick, Efficient RPL/assessment& grading of job-seekers.

Up-Skills Training; Sort, Medium long-term training – Theory, Practical & Work-Place under one roof.

Job-Placement; Job-placement of up-skilled job-seekers.

Manufacturing; Income generation and hands-on, industry-based training.

SMME & Entrepreneurship development.

100% B-BBEE: First fully black-owned Heavy Steel-Manufacturing Facility (with export capacity) in Mpumalanga.

Project Outcomes

  • 14 job-seekers placed in gainful employment, after facilitating RPL Assessments and CVs
  • 12 successful candidates (6 female/6 male) trained in an introduction to life-skills, ICT Training and basic artisanal skills (bridging courses);
  • The facility chosen by Vukani to set up The Job Shop Project has incubated a further 46 job-seekers in a variety of artisanal trades.

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Project Manager

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Project management, 19 years of community development, R 140 mil raised in grant-funds, ‘’Unique Integrated Development Model’’

Project

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Benefits large unemployed community, providing essential services directly to work-seekers, Development of scare and critical artisan skills for the mining, engineering and energy sector in eMalahleni, (witbank), Mpumalanga.

Funders

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