The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies will award certificates to graduates who have successfully completed the Department of Trade and Industry’s (the dti) Itukise Programme which is aimed at providing unemployed graduates with the opportunity to gain work experience that will enable them to be marketable in the labour market.  Members of the media are invited to cover the event:

DATE              : Wednesday, 30 March 2016

TIME               : 10:30

VENUE           :   the dti Campus,
    77 Meintjies Street, Sunnyside, Pretoria.

The Itukise Programme provides work experience through a twelve- month internship in entities receiving financial and non-financial support from the dti. Two-hundred and fifteen trainees have been absorbed into full-time employment through the programme.

RSVPs should be forwarded to Tshilidzi Madinani via telephone 012 394-1399/079 879 5524 or e-mail: TMadinani@thedti.gov.za