South Africa our commitment to people

Alstom is a strong employer in South Africa currently employing over 5,500 people in both the power and transport sectors. We have been in South Africa for over 100 years and we are committed to developing this presence as we continue to win new projects for increasing the countrys power capacity. We have supplied major equipment to 13 of South Africas 14 Steam Power Plants and 80% of South Africas installed capacity is generated through our components. 

The new Alstom offices inaugurated in Johannesburg  in Jan./Feb. 2008 have been created to manage the execution of the new power projects in South Africa. Through its execution of the Bravo and Medupi coal-fired projects, we will employ a further 600 people as well as training and developing key partners and suppliers. Jobs and training will include professional, semi-professional, skilled and semiskilled jobs around engineering and construction activities.

Alstom South Africa is already more than 50% black owned and we are committed to meet BEE and ASGISA requirements as well as providing more than 50% local content for the Bravo and Medupi power plants - the largest combined project ever for both Alstom and Eskom.

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Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) is a program launched by the South African government to redress the inequalities of Apartheid by giving previously disadvantaged groups (black Africans, Coloureds and Indians who are SA citizens) economic opportunities previously not available to them. It includes measures such as Employment Equity, skills development, ownership, management, socio-economic development and preferential procurement. 

Accelerated & Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa (ASIGISA) aims to integrate South Africas First and Second economies the first being integrated with the global economy and responsible for the majority of the countrys wealth, and the Second Economy being isolated from the first and global economies, and contributing little to the countrys wealth. By placing certain requirements on South African businesses, it aims to integrate the economies by: developing small and medium enterprises and co-operatives, encouraging learnerships and internship schemes, improving the education systems as well as training and development programmes. 

Alstom is a strong employer in South Africa – currently employing over 5,500 people in both the power and transport sectors. We have been in South Africa for over 100 years and we are committed to developing this presence as we continue to win new projects for increasing the country’s power capacity. We have supplied major equipment to 13 of South Africa’s 14 Steam Power Plants and 80% of South Africa’s installed capacity is generated through our components.

The new Alstom offices inaugurated in Johannesburg  in Jan./Feb. 2008 have been created to manage the execution of the new power projects in South Africa. Through its execution of the Bravo and Medupi coal-fired projects, we will employ a further 600 people as well as training and developing key partners and suppliers. Jobs and training will include professional, semi-professional, skilled and semiskilled jobs around engineering and construction activities.

Alstom South Africa is already more than 50% black owned and we are committed to meet BEE and ASGISA requirements as well as providing more than 50% local content for the Bravo and Medupi power plants - the largest combined project ever for both Alstom and Eskom.

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Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) is a program launched by the South African government to redress the inequalities of Apartheid by giving previously disadvantaged groups (black Africans, Coloureds and Indians who are SA citizens) economic opportunities previously not available to them. It includes measures such as Employment Equity, skills development, ownership, management, socio-economic development and preferential procurement. 

Accelerated & Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa (ASIGISA) aims to integrate South Africa’s ‘First’ and ‘Second’ economies – the first being integrated with the global economy and responsible for the majority of the country’s wealth, and the Second Economy being isolated from the first and global economies, and contributing little to the country’s wealth. By placing certain requirements on South African businesses, it aims to integrate the economies by: developing small and medium enterprises and co-operatives, encouraging learnerships and internship schemes, improving the education systems as well as training and development programmes.