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employment thumb100 TimesLIVE Premium reports that the new R2bn Club Med on the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) north coast will not only provide a vacation spot for international jetsetters, but is a dream come true for local hospitality graduates.

In October the company will open bookings to its Club Med SA Beach & Safari. The resort will create more than 800 direct and 1,500 indirect jobs, and already employs 1,200 construction workers, mostly from neighbouring communities. A hundred-and-ten young people have already enrolled in a training programme via the NukaKamma Hospitality School and will gradually join the resort staff after completing an initial traineeship at Club Med resorts. According to Gilles Blanc, head of business development at NukaKamma, the aim of the programme is to provide world-class training in food and beverage service. “We are a non-profit company, we only train young adults from these communities whom we recruit by working with local NGOs. In Durban we work with Africa Ignite, who has been working in communities for many years,” Blanc indicated. The training course lasts for six months and incorporates both technical and social skills. “Following this, the trainees will do an eight-month apprenticeship in a hotel or restaurant that has partnered with us,” said Blanc. Club Med Southern Africa MD Olivier Perillat-Piratoine confirmed that graduates would be offered employment at the new Club Med where they will put their newly acquired skills to work.

  • Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Suthentira Govender at TimesLIVE Premium (subscriber access only)


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