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State-Owned Enterprises and Women’s Empowerment

State-Owned Enterprises and Women’s Empowerment. Briefing Session to the Portfolio Committee on 9 March 2005. Mr Eugene Martin. Group Director: HR. Targets for the Group set in 2002. Denel Board of Directors. 1/9. 4/9. 3/9. 1/9. Total Female Strength 2002/2003.

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State-Owned Enterprises and Women’s Empowerment

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  1. State-Owned Enterprises and Women’s Empowerment Briefing Session to the Portfolio Committee on 9 March 2005

  2. Mr Eugene Martin Group Director: HR

  3. Targets for the Group set in 2002

  4. Denel Board of Directors 1/9 4/9 3/9 1/9

  5. Total Female Strength 2002/2003

  6. Total Female Strength 2003/2004

  7. Total Female Strength 2004/2005

  8. Overview of Training and Development of Females in Denel • Strategic Approach to Training of Females within Denel • Denel Employee Training • Youth Development • Bursaries / Study Loans • Experiential Training • Growth Targets in Critical Skills

  9. Strategic Approach to Training of Females within Denel • Historical Legacy of Denel • - Captured market – South African Defence Force • - White male dominated • - Very few females in engineering environment - largely secretarial, • administration and support • 2. Denel is committed to the training and development of females to enable them • to play a larger role within the organisation, especially given its historical • biases. • 3. Present Strategy based on: • - Changing the current entrenched mindset • - Redress of past imbalance • - Access to opportunities, learning and growth for all • - Transformation of Denel as a SOE

  10. Key Implementation Pointers • Entry of new personnel • Recognition of prior learning • Re-training • New training and development for females to become involved in core skills • Skills technology transfer programmes • Mentoring and coaching • Retention • Conditions of service to allow for an enabling environment for female learners

  11. WHITE AFRICAN COLOURED ASIAN Technical 12 23 2 1 Management 4 0 1 0 Safety 19 21 18 1 STTP 1 0 1 0 MSDP 0 1 1 0 Weapons 7 3 1 0 Security 0 4 13 0 Other 37 27 4 2 Total 81 79 44 4 Denel Employee Core Training (Internal) Number of Females Trained in Internal Programmes in Denel 2004-2005 Total Learners 208

  12. WHITE AFRICAN COLOURED ASIAN DYFTP 0 119 14 1 GET SET 0 61 0 0 Schools Outreach 0 45 0 0 Youth Development

  13. DYFTP Results of Female Learners in 2004 Matric Results Before and after interventions by the DYFTP in Maths and Science combined results Entry Level on Standard grade – Final results after DYFTP on Higher grade

  14. Denel Schools Outreach Programme • Focus on grade 10 – 12 learners from schools in deep rural areas • Focus on Maths, Science, Life Skills and Language Literacy • 10 and more students in each of the 9 Provinces • 5 Males and 5 Females • Development of Maths and Science educators (including female educators) in each school

  15. Denel Bursary Programme Internal and External Bursaries for Females

  16. WHITE AFRICAN COLOURED ASIAN Learnerships 0 29 4 0 Apprenticeships 5 20 0 2 ABET 0 23 0 0 Experiential TrainingLearnerships/Apprenticeships

  17. Apprenticeships and Learnerships Aircraft Avionician 10 Maintenance Electrician 1 Fitter and Turner 1 Aircraft Structures 5 Aircraft Maintenance 2 Spray Painter 1 Information Technology Learnerships 20 Chemical Engineering Learnerships 5 Mechanical Engineering Learnerships 4 Analytical Chemistry Learnerships 4

  18. Targets for 2005 - 2006

  19. TARGET GROUPS • Black Women Businesses (BWB) • Persons living with disabilities • Youth • Other black suppliers 1

  20. Increase BEE Spend by 10% Increase BEE Spend by 10% Achieve 10% in BEE Spend. Actual YTD = 4% behind target. The year-end target is 20.93%

  21. BWB QUALIFICATION CRITERIA • 100% BWB or • 51% equity • Day to day involvement in operation & • Management, Decision making & risk taking

  22. SUPPORT PROGRAMME BWB’s • Payment Cycles. Within 30 working days • Skills And Technology Transfer. Training may be given in areas such as finance, quality and production • Tender Advice. Assistance to increase the capacity of such small suppliers in doing business with Denel shall be given. • Permitting price matching for set-aside portion on certain tenders as stipulated in the inquiry documents Reserving certain tenders either part or whole for BWB • Negotiating with BWB suppliers only, using cost plus reasonable profit mark-up. • Assist in negotiating discount with manufactures 1

  23. PREFERENTIAL PROCUREMENT TO DATE • R1.2 billion total procurement spent • R 800 million local procurement • 4% of Indirect Material spent - Women Owned companies • 2% of spent on Direct Material - Women Owned Companies • Indirect Material and Services - currently procured from BEE companies and 20% targeted towards BWB’s

  24. Business Opportunities Directory is in place Supplier information day planned for first quarter 2005/2006 Web page under development ACCESS TO BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

  25. Thank you

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