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5 May 2025 Media Release: Role-players sign Workplace Skills Plan for the 2025/26 Financial Year

Media Release: Role-players sign Workplace Skills Plan for the 2025/26 Financial Year

5 May 2025

Last week, all the relevant stakeholders, including the Garden Route District Municipality’s (GRDM) Human Resources Training Section, the Municipal Manager, and representatives from the trade unions – the South African Municipal Workers’ Union and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union, signed the Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) for GRDM.

All municipalities fall under the Local Government Sector Education and Training Authority (LGSETA), which requires them to pay a levy of 1% of their total payroll, in accordance with the Skills Development Levies Act 97 of 1998. With this, each year municipality is required to submit a WSP in order to claim back Mandatory and Discretionary Funding from the LGSETA.

Trix Holtzhausen with some of the role-players during the signing of the Workplace Skills Plan (WSP).

During the signing of the WSP, the now former Executive Manager of Corporate Services, Ms. Trix Holtzhausen, took the opportunity to thank the Human Resources Training Section, which falls under her portfolio, for their hard work and dedication in ensuring that GRDM Consistently meets the annual deadline for submitting the WSP to LGSETA by 30 April.  Holtzhausen, who will also be leaving the service of GRDM on 30 April 2025, expressed her appreciation for the team’s continued commitment and wish them success with all their future endeavours.

Did you know:

The Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) is a document that outlines the skills needs of Garden Route District Municipality. It outlines the proposed skills development interventions that will be implemented to address institutional skills needs. The WSP is informed by data gathered from the Skills Audit, Personal Development Plan (PDP) processes, and the Organisational Needs Analysis conducted through the Integrated Development Plan (IDP).

To ensure that the WSP aligns with the IDP, the GRDM Training Unit must ensure that each employee completes both a Skills Audit form and a Personal Development Plan.

All role-players endorsing the Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) prior to its submission to LGSETA.

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