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“Eliminating skewed participation in the
sector a challenge for everyone”
REPUBLIC OF
SOUTH AFRICA
Mkhululi Mankazana
Chief Director: Sector Services
Young Professional Development Programme
Basis
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SOUTH AFRICA
 Poor graduate throughput rate of graduates in
Agriculture
 Questionable capacity of South African Higher
Education Institutions to generate the desired human
resources needs of the country.
 Demand for critical and scarce skills in agriculture
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 Skewed enrolments of students in Agriculture
Drivers for skills demand in the sector
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Double the area under irrigation through the establishment of
new and rehabilitation of existing ones
Livestock development (massification)
Biofuels
Land rehabilitation and development of agricultural corridors.
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 The land reform programme (redistribution of 30% of the
Agricultural land)
 The AgriBEE (sector transformation charter)
 The National Medium Term Investment Programme that
advocates for an increase investment in Agriculture to
10% of the GDP
 The sector plan calls for an increase in investment in
Research, Training and Extension to 3% of the GDP
 The Accelerated and Share Growth Initiative of South
Africa (AsgiSA) calls for:
Known and needed skills in the short term
 It is estimated that the transformation of colleges will
need well trained technicians and academics to the tune
of 300 professionals in the next 2 years
 The Bio Security Programme of DoA and the Agricultural
Research Council in general need immediate attention
 Others
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 The extension recovery plan calls for recruitment of
5000 professionals in the next 5 years
The realties
 Our institutions of higher learning have produce on
average of 2400 graduates from 2000-04 onwards
 This represents between 6.1% and 7.7% replacement
demand
 The question is it adequate? The more significant
question are these graduates relevant to the needs of
the sector
 The answer is that majority are irrelevant particularly for
the agriculture public sector
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 The sector employs between 33 000 and 42 000 people
with intermediate to high levels skills
Present Dilemmas using 2004 scenario
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190
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Diploma
First Degree
Masters
Degree
Doctorates
 The former Technikons produce more diploma graduate
than the colleges of agriculture combined
 A total of 2273 were produced in 2004 and only 8.7% and
1.5% were masters and doctorate graduates.
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1437
Racial breakdown of the 2004 graduates
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764
Africans
67
19
Coloureds
Indians
Whites
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1552
Graduation Trends by gender in 2004
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569
480
433
Females
272
188
Conventional Universities
Universities of
Technology
Males
Colleges of Agriculture
There is still strong dominance of male graduates
although the Universities of Technology have
produced more females.
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451
Racial breakdown of enrolments within the
scarce skills categories
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Blacks
Whites
87
17
BVSC
29
29
BSC Agric Engineering
27
BSC Viticulture
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208
Gender breakdown on enrolments within the
scarce skills categories
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95
Females
66
Males
47
38
11
BVSC
BSC Agric
Engineering
BSC Viticulture
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140
Racial breakdown of graduates within scarce
skills categories: 2004
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SOUTH AFRICA
39
5
BVSC
9
13
2
BSC Agric
Engineering
BSC Viticulture
Blacks
Whites
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78
Gender breakdown of graduates within the
scarce skills categories
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Females
28
17
19
22
5
BVSC
BSC Agric Engineering
BSC Viticulture
Males
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What are doing?
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Agricultural Education and Training strategy
Agricultural Research and Development strategy
The Norms and Standards for extension and advisory
services
The Norms and Standards for Agricultural Training Institutes
(Colleges of Agriculture) under development
The External Bursary Scheme
The Internal Bursary Scheme
The Experiential, Internship and Professional Development
Programme Policy and Schemes
The International Training Programme Policy
The International Training strategy
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 We have a set of strategies and schemes and these
are:
How prospective learners can benefit
Products and Services
• Career awareness
• A comprehensive
external bursary
scheme to cover:
- Learners
requirements
- Monthly stipend etc
• Experiential Training
• Support if required
Graduate and
Postgraduate
Products and Services
• A comprehensive
bursary scheme
• Internship support
• Enrolment to the
Professional
Development
Programme to
encourage
postgraduate
arrangement
• The PDP get a higher
allowance
Entrepreneurs
Products and Services
• Information on
business
opportunities
• Enrolment to the Agri
Industry Development
Programme
• Industry placement
and provision of
placement allowances
• Currently influencing
the SMME strategy to
offer products
targeting young
people
 The details will be provided by my colleagues this
afternoon.
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School going learner
Undergraduate
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