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Badplaas - South Africa will start importing skilled workers to address some of the country's skills shortages, says director general of the department of labour, Vanguard Mkosana.
He said the move would form part of the new National Skills Development Strategy for 2005 to 2010.
"We will import some of those skills that are not available in South Africa and are urgently needed," he told delegates at the Provincial Growth and Development Strategy summit in Mpumalanga this week.
"This will be coupled with the training of our local people," he added.
The new strategy will be introduced during the National Skills Conference on March 3 and 4.
Mkosana said that in the past four years, the current skills development strategy had trained more than four million workers through 25 sector education and training authorities (Seta).
Each Seta focuses on a different job sector, but most focused on training workers in the cities, said Mkosana.
He said that over the next five years, the new Seta landscape would "unlock the potential of Setas to service the people of South Africa beyond the confines of the few cities".
Provincial and local government structures have been identified as the most strategic partners in skills development, he said.