Skills for and through SIPs

In 2012 when President Jacob Zuma announced the commencement of the
National Infrastructure Plan in his State of the Nation Address, he stated that 'the massive investment in infrastructure must leave more than just power stations, rail lines, dams and roads. It must industrialise the country, generate skills and boost much needed job creation.' 
The National Infrastructure Plan is made up of eighteen Strategic Integrated Projects (SIPs) each of which consists of a large number of projects drawn from a wide range of economic sectors and stretching across all nine provinces of the country. These projects are outlined in the first chapter of this report. 

The report has a number of purposes which are detailed in the Introduction and Overview Chapter they can be summarised as follows:

 To inform education and training planners of the occupations in demand for the SIPs
 To invite researchers and key partners to assist in improving the methodology that has been used to derive this list, so that it can be increasingly useful over time
 To direct the attention of education and training planners to specific interventions
required to attend to projected scarcities in future, so that they can begin to attend to them now
 To encourage all those with the resources and expertise to support the interventions identified
 To report to South Africans about the work that has already been done and still needs to be done to gain the optimal benefits of the new infrastructure investment of government in terms of generating South African jobs and developing South African skills.