ANA reports that a Supported Employment Enterprise (SEE) factory that will hire 150 people with disabilities was opened in Limpopo last Monday by Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant at Seshego Industrial Park.  

Thirty-nine workers were currently on-site, the department said, while at its peak the factory was expected to employ 150 workers or more.  Oliphant said the factory followed the ratification of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention on People with Disabilities by SA in 2006.  “We have since taken the decision to establish these factories in all provinces.  I urge you to offer support by buying the products.  I am very much happy that we have come to witness the opening of the Limpopo SEE factory that I promised in parliament during 2017,” she stated.  SEEs, formerly known as Sheltered Employment Factories (SEF), were established in 1943 to provide employment opportunities for disabled persons unable to hold down employment in the open labour market.  The Seshego factory brings to 13 the number of SEE factories, which currently employ over 1,000 disabled people supported by 140 administration, management and technical staff.  Some of the products manufactured by SEE factories include office furniture, school furniture, hospital clothes, office safes and gates.

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