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Worldskills South Africa to host a send-off ceremony for the Worldskills Competition 2022 Special Edition

The WorldSkills Competition 2022 Special Edition (WSC2022SE) will see over 1,100 competitors from 57 countries and regions participate in 61 skill competitions which will be held between October and November 2022.

WorldSkills South Africa (WSZA) will participate in 29 different skills which will be hosted in 9 different countries ( See Table below for more details).

On Wednesday, 28 September 2022, WorldSkills South Africa will host a send-off ceremony where a number of stakeholders, including senior management of the Department of Higher Education and Training will bid farewell to our competitors who will be travelling to 9 different countries  for the WorldSkills Competition 2022 Special Edition. This is also an opportunity for the competitors’ parents to officially bid them well for the competition.

The send-off ceremony is precede by the Team Building Capacity Workshop which is currently underway until the evening of 27 September 2022.

Though competitors have already gone through a rigorous training in their various trades, the capacity building workshop will develop, strengthen and prepare them mentally, in particular, for the environment in which they will be competing. This will help boost their already high morale as they travel and go into the competition.

The Department of Higher Education and Training’s championing of the WorldSkills South Africa initiative is in celebration of the talent of young artisans and technicians in the country, but also importantly to serve as an advocacy programme to highlight the importance of the artisan sector in the country’s economy, a sector whose success the Department is entrusted with.

The skills, dates and nine countries to which South Africa will travel for participation at the WorldSkills Competition 2022 Special Edition are in the link below: