CETA Awarded Trade Test Centres
 The act on the part of CETA to award trade test status to four training providers in KwaZulu-Natal has been welcomed in all circles of industry and will go a long way towards assisting those who have acquired skills, to obtain much needed official certification.
With all trade testing previously having taken place outside of the province, scores of apprentices, especially from the previously disadvantaged sector, never got to complete a trade test. As a consequence, many of them have spent years industriously applying skills they posses, while remaining in the minimum wage bracket, employed as unskilled labour.
The four CETA awarded trade test centres will no doubt bridge this gap in KwaZulu-Natal, and will have positive ramifications on local construction industry as a whole. Inflows of easily identifiable skilled labour will be of great support to contractors who look to achieve long term sustainability, by building a quality product, on time and within budget. For those individuals who are now able to acquire their certification, it means a higher earning potential and better quality of life.
The four training providers in KwaZulu-Natal, who by having met a very strict criterion, were awarded trade test status are:
Construction Resource Development Centre (CRDC) based in Pinetown
Trades: Plasterer and Tiler, Carpenter, Plumber, Painter and Decorator, Bricklayer, Roadworks, Shuttering and Drainage Services
Contact: Cedric Hendricks 031 701 6514
CKD/Coastal FET College based in Newlands East
Trades: Plasterer and Tiler, Carpenter, Plumber, Painter and Decorator, Bricklayer, Shuttering
Contact: Brian Charles 031 577 0662
Inala Training based in The Bluff :
Trades: Plumbing trade only (Inala have been doing testing for many years)
Contact: John Mitchell 031 467 4254
Sakhisizwe Development based in Mtubatuba
Trades: Carpenter, Bricklayer, Plasterer and Tiler, Painter and Decorator.
Contact: Dolly Tembe 035 550 1763
Master Builders KwaZulu-Natal congratulates all of them, and wishes them a great and prosperous future in the business of changing lives.
Victor Smith | Training Manager |
