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Skills Training Academy

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Hands-on trade and service skills connected to local work, enterprise, and supplier pathways. Every course starts free, with VR practice, an AI course presenter and a verifiable certificate.

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Built for practical skills learners and micro-enterprise builders. Open any course to start its free modules.

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An illustration of a pharmacist's assistant in a white coat checking a box of medicine against a delivery invoice at a pharmacy counter, with labelled shelves and a medicine fridge behind her and a pharmacist checking her work.

IntermediateFrom R 299Modules 0–1 free

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Pharmacist's Assistant (Basic)

Start a career in pharmacy as the person pharmacists rely on to keep medicines safe, stocked and correctly prepared. This programme follows the registered QCTO curriculum for the Occupational Certificate: Pharmacist's Assistant (Basic) (SAQA 112811, NQF Level 4, 62 credits), the first step towards becoming a Pharmacy Technician, in three parts: knowledge, practical skills and work experience. You learn how the South African health system and the pharmacy profession work, medicines, schedules and the law, receiving, storing and distributing stock, supporting the manufacture of non-sterile medicines, compounding simple preparations under a pharmacist, housekeeping and computer skills, then apply them in a pharmacy under a pharmacist.

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Thandi

Lessons: 57 lessons
Duration: 17 weeks
VowRewards: 1500 VOWR

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An illustration of a learner hairdresser blow-drying a client's hair in a bright salon, with a styling station, mirror and products, while her mentor watches and gives guidance.

IntermediateFrom R 299Modules 0–1 free

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Hairdresser

Learn the hairdressing trade, one of South Africa's high-demand occupations. This programme follows the registered QCTO curriculum for the Occupational Certificate: Hairdresser (SAQA 102497, NQF Level 4), a listed trade that ends in a national trade test, in three parts: knowledge, practical skills and work experience. You learn salon safety and hygiene, hair and skin science, client consultation, shampooing and treatments, styling, braiding, locs and extensions, cutting, colouring, perms, relaxers and keratin treatments, and professional client service, then apply them on real clients in a salon under a qualified hairdresser.

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Thandi

Lessons: 62 lessons
Duration: 19 weeks
VowRewards: 1500 VOWR

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An illustration of an apprentice refrigeration mechanic reading manifold gauges on a commercial condensing unit in a rooftop plant area, with insulated pipes, ducting and an air handler behind her, while her mentor checks the commissioning sheet.

AdvancedFrom R 299Modules 0–1 free

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Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Mechanic

Become a qualified Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Mechanic, one of South Africa's most in-demand trades. This programme follows the registered QCTO curriculum for the Occupational Certificate: Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Mechanic (SAQA 103277, NQF Level 4, 641 credits) in three parts: knowledge, practical skills and work experience. You learn safety, tools, thermodynamics, refrigerants, piping, brazing and welding, electricity and controls, ducting, ventilation, psychrometrics, water systems, evaporative cooling, heat loads, Mollier diagrams, commissioning, fault finding, refurbishment and inspection, then apply them on real unitary, commercial and industrial systems under a qualified mentor, and prepare for the trade test.

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Thandi

Lessons: 256 lessons
Duration: 88 weeks
VowRewards: 1500 VOWR

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