Logistics service provider, TSI Central Station, has completed its first year of learnerships, permanently employing four of the 14 learners who participated in the programme.
“For a company that employs only 35 people, we took 40% of our staff complement as learners,” said CEO of TSI, Clifford Blackburn.
The new employees are: Thandi Makubela (receptionist) and Richard Khumalo and Carlos Hendricks who manage and control the drivers and vehicles for the company’s food programme – run in conjunction with EDS (Early Development System) – where over 50 000 children are fed per month. Lillian Mabe was employed as a proof of delivery clerk.
Blackburn told FTW Online that TSI had seen a big gap in industry training and had embarked on learnership programmes to “actively make a difference”.
“If we can find just one person that we can coach and bring into the company, we are doing something good for the business,” he said.
