{"id":171550,"date":"2017-10-26T10:15:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T10:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/?p=171550"},"modified":"2020-12-22T07:02:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T07:02:46","slug":"shoprite-employs-550-deaf-south-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/shoprite-employs-550-deaf-south-africans\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoprite Employs 550 Deaf South Africans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen I was in matric I became very sick and that is when I lost my hearing. I was very worried and sad. Where I live, in Nongoma, there are no deaf people,\u201d says Sbonelo Ndwandwe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was not able to communicate with other people. I had no hope for employment, but then I came to Durban and my life changed. Now I earn a weekly income which I never had in the past. Checkers<\/a> provided me with an opportunity to work towards my future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sbonelo works at Checkers Amanzimtoti in the fruit & vegetable department. He is one of the 550 deaf and hard-of-hearing people currently employed by the Shoprite Group after successfully completing the NQF Level 2 Wholesale and Retail Chain Store Operation qualification.<\/p>\n

The Group was the first employer in the retail sector<\/a> to offer this qualification, and it has been doing so in partnership with Employ and Empower Deaf (eDeaf) since 2009. Learners are recruited and trained by a specialised team of deaf facilitators using South African Sign Language (SASL), after which they are placed in a Shoprite or Checkers supermarket for a one-year learnership<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are an estimated 500 000 deaf people living in South Africa and many are unemployed, so for most of these deaf learners it is their first entry into the workplace.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing at home was very hard. I couldn\u2019t support my daughter and my family no longer wanted to help me,\u201d explains Ziliswa Mzana, who was jobless for eleven years. Today she works at Shoprite Khayelitsha. \u201cI\u2019m proud of myself and excited about my future again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Staff of the Shoprite Decade of the Deaf programme working at Shoprite Kraaifontein Storel, Cape Town , Western Cape , South Africa
\n\u00a9Luigi Bennett<\/h6>\n

Source:<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/www.sagoodnews.co.za\/deaf-employed-educated-500-000-unemployed-nationally\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen I was in matric I became very sick and that is when I lost my hearing. I was very worried and sad. Where I live, in Nongoma, there are no deaf people,\u201d says Sbonelo Ndwandwe. \u201cI was not able to communicate with other people. I had no hope for employment, but then I came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171550"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171915,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171550\/revisions\/171915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}