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Our people
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Our graduate programme employed
17 graduates this year. The initiative attracts
young talented professionals to add value in
various strategic and operational business
units. We also offer these young professionals
a bursary for the second and third year of
study and, where applicable, for their honours
degrees. At least 88,2% of these graduates
are offered permanent employment.
In our broadcast technology and outside-
broadcasting areas, eight young engineers
were offered opportunities to gain valuable
experience and conduct research while
completing their qualifications.
Bursaries
We invested over R18,5m in bursaries in the
review period. Much of this was focused on
supporting employees in obtaining their first
undergraduate degree, and 64% (R11,8m)
was allocated to women. While most of the
qualifications we fund are in business studies,
a growing number are in communication
science and media studies.
Skills development and
learnerships
Our learnerships combine vocational learning
with practical and workplace experience
aligned to the National Qualifications
Framework (NQF). During the year
89 employees and unemployed learners
completed programmes that have equipped
them with skills in broadcast engineering,
project management, administration, film and
television production, paralegal, and technical
accounting skills.
A total of 80 learnerships were offered to
unemployed people with disabilities.
Online learning
Our people can complete online courses and
interact with fellow learners through a cloud-
based platform, SABA Talent Management,
which facilitates virtual classrooms,
assessments, surveys and online and social
collaboration. It offers generic courses across
seven categories as well as custom-created
content (including assessments) to support
business imperatives.
In addition, the Naspers-wide online
platform, MyAcademy, offers more than
5 000 courses for employees to enhance
their skills. With the total number of
registered users in MultiChoice making up
6 481 employees, MyAcademy is set to take
our employees’ learning experience to the
next level.
In 2018 we focused on the rollout of online
training modules on the code of business
ethics and conduct, as well as various
corporate governance programmes.
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Our material matters
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