The Executive Mayor, Cllr Geoffrey Makhubo, and the Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Economic Development, Cllr Lawrence Khoza launched an Opportunity Centre in Eldorado Park.
The new Opportunity Centre will help residents with information on how to start businesses, compliance advice, business development training, facilitation of access to finance and support to run sustainable businesses. All training will be free of charge and participants will be issued with a certificate of attendance.
Makhubo said the promotion of entrepreneurship, innovation, enterprise growth and competitiveness is critical in growing the economy and creating jobs. The spatial pattern of economic growth in the City is also critical.
“Growth of the economy has been unevenly spread in spatial terms in recent years and it is important to enable residents to access jobs and economic opportunities with ease in their communities,” said Makhubo.
MMC Khoza said the centres have created more business opportunities for residents. “There is an immense sense of entrepreneurship in Johannesburg. The city has the responsibility to create a range of quality opportunities to communities and to further motivate the youth, women and people living with disability to take advantage of services offered at various opportunity centres within the City,” said Khoza.
Makhubo said all centres currently have a job seekers database, which provides a platform for the unemployed to submit their CVs. The job seekers database can, subject to applicable legislation, be accessed by public and private sector companies.
