Arc Skills students form company, win home-building contract

Thirteen formerly unemployed students of Arc Skills have formed their own company, Simunye Trading Construction, and have won their first house-building contract. The contract, with Mokgolokwane Civils (M Civils), will see Simunye build 20 low cost houses - valued at R1,960,000. As part of the process, Simunye is hiring around 100 young people as labourers, helping to address the chronic problem in South Africa whereby many young people cannot get jobs because they don't have experience and they cannot get experience because they don't have jobs.
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