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 a further 700 people and its 12 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.
Thus by 2007 SunWest’s activities were sustaining 6 030 direct jobs and 5 780 indirect jobs, a total of just short of 12 000 sustainable jobs in Cape Town.
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.