” I completed my metric in 2003 at Allendale secondary school in Witbank, I then studied at (TUT) in Pretoria, I was studying Public supervisory management, that was the year 2004, I couldn’t finish up my Diploma as my mother was the only person who was paying for my fees, so she lost her job…
“I entered CTC back in 2001 for the first time. I had been placed on the DOL project (department of labour). I had absolutely no technical experience before starting (I came from working as a receptionist at the gym), never having even changed a tyre on a car I started my journey to becoming a…
The Colliery Training College (CTC) board has approved R3-million towards achieving its Artisan 4.0 vision by the end of 2020. Artisan 4.0 will enable an artisan to know about bearings, gearboxes and sequence starters because the basic principles of mechanics, electricity, forces, and motion have not changed, says CTC Emalahleni MD Johan Venter, adding that…
Opportunities to improve artisan programme While the Artisan 4.0 programme is still in its first year, there are various opportunities to improve the programme going forward, says industry education entity the Colliery Training College(CTC) MD Johan Venter. CTC introduced the Artisan 4.0 programme last year in four phases, as the programme is focused on learning…
CTC and Artisan 4.0. Mining Industry needs to embrace Industry 4.0. Challenges faced by the mining industry today like increasing production costs, depressed commodity prices and the high cost of electricity, are forcing the mining sector to embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution as it brings industrial transformation. Such developments will bring the training colleges and…
Artisan and mining skills training college Colliery Training College (CTC) will launch a modern training programme – Artisan 4.0 – in response to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). The launch of the programme is scheduled to coincide with the Electra Mining show in September. CTC MD Johan Venter notes that orders for capital equipment, such…
