In an effort to combat youth unemployment, TNPA engages its largest batch of interns.
Owing to Transnet National Ports Authority’s (TNPA) largest-ever recruitment effort, which was carried out across its port system to address the high rate of youth unemployment, around 288 South African graduates who are unemployed have started a two-year internship program. The young graduates, who are from a range of port cities and neighboring rural villages, […]
MD Message July 2022
“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mine worker can become the head of the mine; that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make […]
New Commercial Diving Regulations Intended to Advance Occupational Health and Safety
The Department of Employment and Labour regulates diving operations in the Republic of South Africa. Thus, the new regulations apply to all commercial diving operations and all persons engaged in commercial diving operations in the country or its territorial waters. Following the promulgation of the new commercial diving regulations on 20 May 2022, replacing the […]
EMC and the Department of Basic Education Partner on Maritime Teacher Training
11 – 15 June 2022, Dokkies Teachers Training College and Wilsons Wharf, Port of Durban EThekwini Maritime Cluster (EMC) under its Training and Skills Development Programme is mandated to train and support maritime educators teaching at high schools in KZN. This is done annually by EMC in partnership with the Department of Basic Education in […]
67 Minutes With KZN Business Leaders
[Amanzimtoti, Monday, 18 July 2022] The spirit of International Mandela Day has been embraced and is well alive amongst KwaZulu-Natal’s (KZN) leaders in Business. This year, the Amanzimtoti Child and Family Welfare Society, located in the South of Durban, received support from the Transnet National Ports Authority’s (TNPA) Eastern Region and leaders of organizations operating […]
MSC Regatta Week Rich With Accomplishment
Monday, 4 July 2022, was the official start of the MSC week, a regatta that comprises the J22, L26, and ORC classes of boats. The five-day sailing race was hosted by the Point Yacht Club (PYC) and it had 22 boats participating, as well as, another 24 in the J22 world cup (which is part […]
EThekwini Maritime Cluster 2022 Annual General Meeting
EThekwini Maritime Cluster projected to successfully integrate the organizations objectives and strategically aligned its mission with the programme implemented during the 2021/2022 AGM Meeting On 2June 2022, EMC invited all its stakeholders to the Royal Hotel in Durban for the 2022 Annual General Meeting. EMC hosted a successful AGM that was inclusive of the breakdown […]
EMC Managing Director Monthly Newsletter Message
Dear valued stakeholder, It gives me great pleasure to, once more, report on the activities of the EThekwini Maritime Cluster for the month of June 2022. In this report I will take the opportunity to highlight some of the youth related activities, in the light of the fact that June is the month that South […]
Maritime Career Awareness Event in Partnership with the Westville Correctional Service Center
[30 June 2022] Maritime Career Awareness Event in Partnership with the Westville Correctional Service Centre Information about the maritime industry and its contribution to the economy and its vast opportunities is not well publicised, it is for this reason that the EThekwini Maritime Cluster (EMC) is promoting the industry to the public. Last month the […]
EThekwini Maritime Cluster Youth onth campaign exposes the different careers available within the Maritime Industry
In South Africa, June is commemorated and honored as Youth Month. South Africans honor the Youth of 1976 during Youth Month by either creating youth campaigns to empower and inspire the present generation of South African youth or by raising awareness of the contributions and effects of the Youth of 1976 on South Africa’s liberation. […]