The Gauteng MEC for Education and Youth Development Panyaza Lesufi launched Pace Commerce and Entrepreneurship School of Specialisation in Jabulani, Soweto.
The school will focus on finance, hospitality and tourism as one of the department’s objective departments is to equip learners with entrepreneur skills and tackle the on-going unemployment challenge facing the youth.
According to MEC Panyaza Lesufi, the school will be among the 35 schools of specialisation, which have been transitioned to address skills shortage to meet the economic demands of the Gauteng City Region. Lesufi thanked
ABSA and the Australian government for investing their energy and resources to make it possible.
“Today we are launching a school that will change your life forever so that you can be business people, open your own businesses and know how to run it and you can show the world that a South African child if given a chance they can compete with any other child in any part of the world,” said Lesufi, addressing learners at Pace Commerce and Entrepreneurship School of Specialisation.
Lesufi said they aim to change the learner’s mindset of the consumer products and promote producers who can compete globally.
The Gauteng legislature Portfolio chairperson Matome Chiloane said the learners are not going to be the learners that the schools have been producing for years, now schools are producing multi-skilled learners and that the department must be applauded for the great work they are doing.
One of the learners Buhle Masina said he is excited about the changes in the school because as students of a commercial school they should be taught on how to manage businesses and know how to manage finances.
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