Gautrain job creation

[blunomore]

Gautrain has already created or sustained an estimated 92 900 direct, indirect and induced jobs of which an estimated 18 200 are local direct jobs

www.gautrain.co.za

 

[Luf]

amazing! The Gautrain is one of the best projects happening in SA along with the Stadia and the BRT(s).

The peeps here of course will think differently, no doubt.

 

[remybfg10k]

How much are they paying your to do the P.R. blu?

 

[blunomore]

How much are they paying your to do the P.R. blu?

LOL! No, it's just natural enthusiasm bubbling over

It's got a station a stonethrow from where I live, I go to Rosebank and the airport fairly often and my mum lives in Centurion, so it suits me like a glove !

 

[davemc]

R25,400,000,000.00 to create 18 200 jobs.

Could have paid each person 1,395,604.39 each instead.



I could not resist.

 

[blunomore]

Could have paid each person 1,395,604.39 each instead.

But then there would not be a train.

 

[davemc]

Yup yup.

 

[McSack]

...92 900 direct, indirect and induced jobs of which an estimated 18 200 are local direct jobs.

Yoh! and the other 74,700?

I think the Gautrain is a fantastic (if over-priced ) project, but I wonder what those 18,200 people are going to do once this project is over. And never-mind all those jobs which are going to be "uncreated" once the WC stadiums (stadia?) are all built

 

[Voicy]

Yoh! and the other 74,700?

I think the Gautrain is a fantastic (if over-priced ) project, but I wonder what those 18,200 people are going to do once this project is over. And never-mind all those jobs which are going to be "uncreated" once the WC stadiums (stadia?) are all built

The kicker (for lack of a better term) with these large scale projects is that afterwards you now have skilled and semi-skilled labourers. Having some sort of artisan skill goes a long way. Building contractors etc. are forced by the DPW to employ local labour in a roll-over scheme for a few weeks at a time. It's rather awesome to see how many of these contractors end up permanently employing at least SOME of these previously-unskilled labourers.

Sure they're not all guaranteed of a job - but when they've finished their employment period they walk away with a set of their own tools AND a much better chance of future employment.

The Greenpoint stadium has resulted in one case of transferring "some random unemployed woman" into the country's 1st female qualified crane operator.

Our country has a very high unemployment rate, yet we suffer severely from skills shortage. So how does that work? The problem isn't that there aren't any jobs ... there just aren't enough jobs for unskilled 'labourers'.

The Transkei, as an example, simply does not have enough qualified field technicians in most of the disciplines to cater for the region's faults and shortfalls. But nobody wants to get their hands dirty.