Housing in Southern Africa November 2015

50 000 students Housing to creating unique skills in the use of new technology in the green building sector and have received a lot of sup- port from the Department of Higher Education and Training to do so,” says Schooling.

“We project around 6 700 employ- ment opportunities based on our current work scope, which will go a long way in addressing high unem- ployment rates and upskilling young job seekers with sustainable skills.” Over the next five years STAG Afri- can aims to roll out accommodation for 50 000 students. “We approach every development holistically and take the social, physical, financial, political and environmental impact of our proposal into account. We then apply our founding principal of developing green skills, for green jobs for a green economy,” said Schooling.

So far, expansion, outside of STAG African’s core South African op- erations has incorporated Mauri-

tius, Mozambique and Zambia, with Botswana, Madagascar and Namibia firmly in the pipeline. ■