White Pearl Technology

Beginning in January 2024, WPTG, takes on fifteen interns, provides them with a year of paid on-the-job work experience, training, and mentoring opportunities across its South African locations. Participants learns within various IT roles and teams in fields including software development, project management, data analytics, network engineering and technical writing.
  
This program is designed to expand career access in technology domains facing major skills shortages locally and where black professionals are severely underrepresented currently. Upon program completion, successful interns receive priority consideration for full-time employment within WPTG to place them on accelerated paths to become the next generation of young black IT leaders in communities where tech talent pipelines lag.
  
WPTG is committed to BEE ideals and as part of the company group's broader transformation commitments supporting Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) ideals in South Africa, WPTG designed this internship initiative to make concrete investments into developing promising, high-potential black graduates eager to grow into technology specialists.