(1)Whether, following the Just Energy Transmission Programme’s (JETP) investment into the Republic and the announcement that a partnership has been formed between the Government and Cape Peninsula University of Technology with the intention of retraining workers who operated in coal powered plants to be able to operate in renewable replacements, his department has plans to replicate the project nationwide as we begin the transition in line with JETP’s standards; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
(2) (a) what total number of employees have been successfully and/or projected to be retrained since the deal’s conception and (b) with one of three pillars in the JETP agreement being the coal renewable energy shift, how does his department intend to achieve this with the support of affected communities?