Deputy Minister NTULI to address cluster-based Competitivness Summit in EKURHULENI
31 MAY 2010
The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms Maria Ntuli will deliver a keynote address on the first day of the Cluster-Based Competitiveness Summit that will take place at the Birchwood Hotel, Boksburg from 1-4 June 2010. The summit which is convened by the Department of Trade and Industry, (the dti) in partnership with Productivity South Africa (PSA) under the theme “Cluster-Based Industrial Competitiveness” aims to assist in the process of strengthening and broadening the Workplace Challenge Programme (WPC).
More than seventy participants from all the three spheres of government, the industry and academia, as well as cluster facilitators and regional managers of Workplace Challenge Programme will attend the event.
According to the Director of Skills for Economy at the dti, Dr Julius Nyalunga, the purpose of the summit is to bring local and international experts in the field of cluster competitiveness to discuss and analyse the role of clusters in the implementation of regional and local industrial, economic and skills development.
“The summit will be drawing from experiences of local and world leading experts in the field of competitiveness and industrial development. These will include experts from the Spain and New Zealand,” said Nyalunga.
The WPC is a joint initiative of the National Economic Development Labour Council (NEDLAC) and the dti which is managed by PSA. It is a world-class manufacturing, or Best Operating Practice, programme aimed at helping manufacturing companies in South Africa to become more competitive. It is one of government’s measures to improve the productivity of South African companies and by doing this, improve their competitiveness.
The aims of the WPC are to actively encourage and support change in the workplace to improve company performance, productivity and job creation.
Clustering is a process of linking different companies which are in the same or interrelated industries and provide them with the necessary support to enable them to increase their competitiveness in order to contribute to the country’s overall competitiveness and economic growth.
For more information contact Mamosa Dikeledi on 083 584 6856 or Maupi Monyemangene on 082 447 3232
Issued jointly Communication and Marketing, the dti
Productivity South Africa
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