sustainability
Employees
SunWest has spawned many new business opportunities and created employment for thousands of people from its surrounding communities and beyond.
- GrandWest directly employs almost 1 000 people and this does not include the 27 concessionaires who provide jobs for over
1 000 people and its 11 outsourced service providers who employ a further 1 500 people, most of whom never had jobs before. GrandWest has therefore been the biggest driver of SunWest’s contribution to Gross Domestic Product. - The Table Bay operation, in addition, provides employment for in excess of 600 people.
In 2001, at the peak of the construction of GrandWest, SunWest created or sustained 7 102 direct jobs and 7 455 indirect jobs, resulting in a total of 14 558 jobs created or sustained. By 2008 SunWest activities was sustaining 5 781 direct jobs and 5 235 indirect jobs. This is a total of 11 017 sustainable jobs due to the activities of SunWest.
GrandWest has provided a phenomenal training ground for these first-time employees, many of whom have moved on to other opportunities through the benefit of this world-class training and experience.
The CTICC, (which SunWest played a pivotal role in launching by providing much-needed intellectual assistance, not to mention the considerable financial assistance afforded it in the form of R140 million in equity) employs 3 744 people as a direct result of its operations.