{"id":467758,"date":"2021-02-12T13:59:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T11:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=467758"},"modified":"2021-02-12T13:59:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T11:59:02","slug":"solidarity-built-this-r200-million-alternative-college-campus-in-just-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/467758\/solidarity-built-this-r200-million-alternative-college-campus-in-just-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity built this R200 million ‘alternative’ college campus in just a year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trade Union Solidarity has announced the completion of its new Sol-Tech Occupational Training College campus in Gauteng.<\/p>\n

Funded entirely by community investments, the campus is part of a R300 million project which consists of the education campus and a student residential complex, development of which is currently underway.<\/p>\n

The campus as a stand-alone development was a few million below R200 million in total, the trade union said. It added that the construction period from ground breaking to occupation by Sol-Tech was approximately 15 months.<\/p>\n

Solidarity said that the campus is now the new home of Sol-Tech, and facilities previously used were leased and terminated with the move to the new campus.<\/p>\n

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Solidarity said that its next major project is the construction of the Akademia campus where education will be offered through Afrikaans as the medium of instruction.<\/p>\n

Projects included in the Solidarity network pipeline include:<\/p>\n