Ten trainees started lessons at the brand-new Makana Brick Bricklaying School this week.
Funded by Makana Brick and run by the East Cape Training Centre, the training facility is based at the factory's premises. The course is being run for the first time and will be used as a model for future courses.
Ten trainees started lessons at the brand-new Makana Brick Bricklaying School this week.
Funded by Makana Brick and run by the East Cape Training Centre, the training facility is based at the factory's premises. The course is being run for the first time and will be used as a model for future courses.
Courses are run where there are materials – brick, sand and stone. Everything else is supplied in the mobile unit from the training centre.
Ten Grahamstown residents selected by the municipality are currently enrolled. Makana Brick CEO Colin Meyer said the bricklaying course was to ensure the long-term sustainability of the clay brick industry.
"It's also an attempt to assist with the high level of unemployment in Grahamstown," Meyer said.
Rod Taylor, sales and marketing director at Makana Brick, said their aim was to create a mobile school which could be taken anywhere in the Eastern Cape to conduct training.
A normal bricklaying course takes 60 days, but the bricklaying school offers a 10-working-day course which according to Taylor is “as versatile as possible”.
Peter George, from East Cape Training Centre, said the course focused on selected modules of bricklaying.
The school, which can train up to 15 at a time, is Seta approved and certificates are handed out at the end of the course to successful candidates.
