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General Education and Training Certificate: Clothing Manufacturing Processes

  • Course Code: 50584
  • Duration: 10-12 Months
  • Level: NQF1
  • Industry: Fibre Processing and Manufacturing
Course structure


• Assist the community to access services in accordance with their health related human rights.
• Cost a garment.
• Demonstrate an understanding of entrepreneurship and develop entrepreneurial qualities.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to participate effectively in the workplace.
• Demonstrate an understanding of managerial expertise and administrative capabilities.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of supply and demand, and the concept: production.
• Demonstrate the ability to start and run a business and adapt to a changing business environment.
• Establish customer requirements and sell a garment.
• Finish and store pressed and ironed items.
• Identify, analyze and select business opportunities.
• Make garments.
• Perform basic life support and first aid procedures.
• Plan to manage one`s time.
• Source materials.
• Analyze cultural products and processes as representations of shape, space and time.
• Collect, analyze, use and communicate numerical data.
• Critically analyze how mathematics is used in social, political and economic relations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of and use the numbering system.
• Describe and represent objects and the environment in terms of shape, space, time and motion.
• Engage in a range of speaking/signing and listening interactions for a variety of purposes.
• Identify and respond to selected literary texts.
• Read/view and respond to a range of text types.
• Use maps to access and communicate information concerning routes, location and direction.
• Working with numbers in various contexts.
• Write/Sign for a variety of different purposes.
• Demonstrate an understanding of basic accounting practices.
• Demonstrate an understanding of contracts and their sources.
• Describe and discuss issues relating to HIV-AIDS, TB and sexually transmitted illnesses and their impact on the workplace.
• Describe and show how the NQF can help me to plan a learning and career pathway.
• Develop and use keyboard skills to enter text.
• Operate a personal computer system.
• Plan and manage personal finances.
• Write and present a simple business plan.
• Apply basic business concepts.
• Identify the composition of a selected new venture's industry/sector and its procurement systems.
• Identify work opportunities.
• Manage business operations.
• Manage marketing and selling processes of a new venture.
• Match new venture opportunity to market needs.

The General Education and Training Certificate in Clothing Manufacturing Processes is designed to meet the needs of learners who are involved in sewing processes/basic garment making in the clothing sector. This qualification reflects the needs of various community-based initiatives within the sector. This qualification provides the learner with accessibility to be employed in manufacturing processes.

Grade 10

This will allow persons to register as a Clothing Manufacturer and lay a foundation for future career advancement across similar SMME programmes (entrepreneurship).

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