As part of the national Take a Girl Child to Work Day initiative at the end of last month, Transnet National Ports Authority invited female learners into its workplace to give them the opportunity to experience port operations first-hand. The initiative is designed to offer wide career choices to girls as well as to develop and channel them for future careers. More than 265 learners from grades 10-12 from TNPA’s adopted schools nationally – as well as daughters of TNPA staff – got a sneak peek into the maritime world as they toured some of TNPA’s busy ports in Durban, Richards Bay, East London, Saldanha Bay, Mossel Bay, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Ngqura. Durban girls are shown how to manoeuvre a vessel at the simulator centre at the School of Ports.
