* bekendstelling van plaaswerkers wat na Frankryk gaan
24 Oktober 2006
U sal met my saamstem dat 'n geleentheid soos hierdie waar ons mense binne
landbou in staat stel om internasionale ondervinding in die bestuur en
instandhouding van wynvate in Frankryk op te doen, praktiese uitvoering gee aan
die kweek van die seisoen van hoop.
As deel van die bevordering van vaardigheidsontwikkeling in landbou, bied
die Departement van Landbou in die Wes-Kaap nog 'n eerste aan in die proses van
bemagtiging van werkers binne ons sektor. In samewerking met die wynbedryf, wat
verteenwoordig word deur die Suid-Afrikaanse wynbedryfstrust (SAWIT), in
hierdie geval, kry vyf persone in die wynbedryf geleentheid om internasionale
ondervinding op te doen in hulle vakgebied.
Hierdie vyf persone, Clements Page van Distell, Hans Johannes van Graham
Beck, Adam Alexander van Rupert & Rothschild, Norman Ketelo van De Grendel
en Naithan Adams van Morgenster, kry 'n kans van 'n leeftyd om ondervinding te
gaan opdoen in die bestuur en instandhouding van vate, met veral die klem op
die invloed van houtvate op wynkwaliteit.
Die gekeurde persone sal vanaf 13 tot 25 November 2006 Beaune, Frankryk
besoek, waar hulle aan alle komponente van die maak en instandhouding van
houtvate blootgestel sal word deur lesings by te woon, kelders te besoek en
praktiese opleiding te ontvang. 'n Serfikaat van Beaune CFPPA (Centre de
Formation Professionnelle et de Promotion Agricole) sal aan die einde van die
kursus aan die kandidate uitgereik word.
Hierdie toevoeging tot ons reeds bestaande programme, om wyn- en kaasmakers
na Boergondië te stuur, gee ook uiting aan een van die strategieë van Ikapa
Elihlumayo, naamlik die bou en ontwikkeling van menslike kapitaal.
This specific program was included in an agreement earlier this year when a
French delegation consisting of representatives from the Centre de Formation
Professionelle et de Promotion Agricole (CFPPA) Beaune, the Vice President
responsible for International Relations in the Burgundy Regional Council and
French wineries visited the Western Cape, from 1 to 6 May 2006 to negotiate the
continuation of an existing educational exchange programme in the wine
industry. This was done in terms of the bilateral Co-operation Agreement
between the Burgundy Region and the Western Cape Province, which was signed in
September 2002.
This project is named the Thuthukile Skweyiya Western Cape Burgundy Wine
Exchange Programme in honour of Ms Thuthukile Skweyiya, the former SA
Ambassador to France who was instrumental in the initiation of the exchange
programme. The primary aim of this project is to provide vocational training
and social upliftment to wine farm workers with no formal qualification up to
NQF level 4, but with a relevant experience in viticulture and cellar
technology, to obtain a recognized certificate. This project follows on a
successful first phase of the exchange programme pioneered by the CFPPA, South
African Wine Industry Trust (SAWIT) and the SA Embassy in Paris since 2001. The
project is developed in collaboration with the Centre de Formation
Professionelle et de Promotion Agricole (CFPPA) Beaune and the Conseil Regional
Bourgogne (Burgundy Regional Council). The project benefits primarily from the
financial support of the Western Cape Government and SAWIT on the South African
side and of the Burgundy Regional Council and French Department of Foreign
Affairs on the French side.
The project, which strengthens the bilateral co-operation between France and
South Africa as well as between Burgundy and the Western Cape, includes: The
exchange of learners at training centers, the implementation of joint
professional training in the wine industry, the exchange of students, and
practical internships.
We are proud of this programme and it has already born much fruit in that
students from both the wine and cheese making courses, have already made their
mark here at home, with the making and production of champion wine and
cheese.
To the students who have the privilege to go on this course I want to say,
you must go to France to enjoy the experience and to enrich yourselves with the
knowledge that you will gain from the experts, but you also go, not forgetting
that you are representing more than 200 000 other farm workers who would also
like to have a similar experience. Go, and come back with knowledge that you
can impart to them, as you must form part of the team that wants to make the
Western Cape a home for its entire people.
Enquiries: Alie van Jaarsveld
Cell: 084 604 6701
Tel: (021) 483 4930
Fax: (021) 483 3890
E-mail: avjaarsv@pgwc.gov.za
Issued by: Ministry of Agriculture, Western Cape Provincial Government
24 October 2006
