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Isett Seta
Oupa Mopaki
CEO: Oupa Mopaki
Sector Skills Planning Manager: Neville Nicholas
Learnership Manager: Jabu Sibeko
Education & Training Quality Assurance Manager: Charlton Philiso
Physical Address 19 Richards Drive, Gallagher House, Midrand 1685
Postal Address PO Box 5585, Halfway House 1685
Tel (+27 11) 207 2600
Fax (+27 11) 805 6833
Email ceo@isettseta.org.za
Website www.isett.org.za
 
 
Information Systems, Electronics and
Telecommunications Technologies
(ISETT) Sector Education and Training
Authority (SETA) was established
specifically to address skills development in
the Information Communications and Technologies
Sector. This was as a result of Government’s
commitment to promote active
labour market policies and is demonstrated
in the Skills Development Act of 1998 and
the Skills Development Levies Act of 1999.
Like the other SETAs, Isett’s work is regulated
by the Skills Development Act, which
is overseen by the Department of Labour,
and funded through payroll levies paid by
employers in the sector. This particular
sector has approximately 210 000 employees
spread across, 4 000 levy-paying companies,
82 percent of them small, medium and
micro enterprises (SMMEs). The Isett SETA
has been and still is steadfast in living up
to its key mandate of delivering on the
National Skills Development Strategy Objectives.
These objectives are inclusive of the
ICT sector Skills Objectives as articulated
by the constituent ICT companies in their
Workplace Skills Plans and Annual Training
Reports. The Isett SETA has again posted
excellent performance results in the year
under review as evidenced in this year’s
Annual Report. This was achieved through
the growing participation and involvement
of the ICT companies and their eagerness
to roll-out more Learnership and Graduate
Internship Programmes to address their
ever-growing and changing need for skilled
personnel.
 
(1). Founded in 2000 (2). Established specifically to address skills development in ICT sector (3). Vision: To develop South Africa into an ICT knowledge-based society (4). To generate, facilitate and accelerate the processes of skills development for workers at all levels in the ICT sector by linking future technology trends with new skills development programmes (5). Has staff development programmes
 
 

STATISTICS / DEMOGRAPHICS / HISTORY
Year founded: 2000
Founding members: Department of Labour
Employees: 40
Branches: Gauteng: Head Office, KwaZulu-Natal,
Western Cape, Eastern Cape

NATURE OF BUSINESS
Activity: Sector Educational Training Authority
Products/services offered: Opportunity of skills
development in the Information Communications and
Technologies Sector through the implementation of
Learnership and internship programmes; funding of the
learnership and internship ventures; disbursement of
mandatory grants through submission of Annual Training
Reports and Workplace Skills Plans by stakeholders
within the sector; accreditation of training providers;
and quality assurance training offered by the accredited
training providers
ISO rating: Isett Seta is ISO9001 accredited

TRAINING
Training programmes: Staff development programmes


BUSINESS & FINANCE
Financial year-end: 31 March 2008
Sub-sectors: Information Technology,
Telecommunications, Electronics
Bank: First National Bank
Current customer base: Stakeholders within the ICTE
sector

CONTRACTS & AWARDS
Recent awards: Gold Certificate of Good Performance
by Honourable Minister of Labour, Membathisi
Mdladlana; rated as the best performing SETA in 2007
Joint ventures: In 2007 the Department of
Communications (DoC), Department of Education (DoE)
and the Isett SETA entered into a partnership to assist
further education and training colleges -this is a three
year partnership at a cost of R16-million; Isett SETA also
partnered with municipalities to enable e-government; a
number of ICTE companies that are participating in both
learnership and internship programmes