P164m training funds lying idle-BOTA

Speaking at a ceremony to handover a BOTA accreditation certificate to Events Venture, an events management and training company, the Authority's CEO Abel Mudongwa urged employers to undertake training for their employers in a bid to develop their organisations' human resources, the full cost of which will be covered by the Vocational Training Fund(VTF).

"Most management training companies in the country are doing all they can to get BOTA Accreditation, but I am not sure if stakeholders are taking advantage of the top quality programme that these companies have to offer. In the last 12 months we have accumulated over P164 million and only P24 million has been claimed by employers. " I am suprised by these figures which can only mean that employers are not training their staff,' he said.