Kouga DA councillor instrumental in setting up FET facility.

Barry Vosloo

Kouga DA councillor, Juline Prinsloo, recently approached the Accord Business Academy (ABA) on behalf of the local community and expressed a deeply-felt need for a skills training facility in Humansdorp/Jeffreys Bay and the surrounding area.

Accord Business Academy has acceded to Councillor Prinsloo’s pleas, the outcome of which is an invitation to prospective students to meet representatives of the college at the Humansdorp Hotel on 19 November 2011.

According to Maxie Theron, spokesperson for ABA, the college is an accredited private Christian-based further education and training institution registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training .  The college opened its doors in the Eastern Cape in 1996, and has 11 branches in South Africa. In the Eastern Cape they have branches in Port Elizabeth, East London and King Williams Town.

“Over the past 15 years,” said Theron, “ABA has assisted thousands of Eastern Cape learners to develop industry-relevant skills, thereby equipping them for the workplace.  The Grade 12-rewrite School at ABA is one of the largest in the Eastern Cape and has helped numerous learners to obtain their Grade 12 qualification or of improving their Grade 12 results to facilitate admission to various institutions of higher education.”

Theron explained that ABA Health, a sister company of ABA, focuses primarily on healthcare training. The need for such individuals in the communities of the Eastern Cape was identified as long ago as 2001.  The Ancillary Health Care Course offered by ABA Health is fully accredited with HWSETA.

“At ABA,” Theron concluded, “the focus is on assisting learners to discover their potential.  We believe that we can help learners to gain the self-belief and determination to achieve their career goals.”