South Africa looking to India for ICT skills
President Jacob Zuma said that South Africa needs to enhance skills in the areas of engineering, information and communication technology, computer science, finance, economics, and accounting to boost the country’s infrastructure programme.
Speaking at a joint media conference following a meeting with Indian president Pratibha Devisingh Patil, Zuma said that South Africa will be seeking cooperation with India on the acquisition of some of these skills.
Zuma also praised the existing development partnership between SA and India. “We welcome existing development support. Many South Africans are benefiting from India’s ITEC programme, which shares the Indian development experience with developing countries,” said Zuma.
“This covers skills development in traditional areas such as agriculture, small business management to science, technology and biotechnology.”
Zuma used the meeting to invite India to invest in the country’s infrastructure plan announced in the State of the Nation Address.
“We have once again extended an invitation to Indian business to invest in our infrastructure development programme, in which we are to invest more than R800 billion until 2014,” President Jacob Zuma said.
This would translate into R300 billion in the energy sector and R262 billion in transport and logistics projects.
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