At Fundza Training Institute, we offer training courses for machine operators, earthmoving equipment operators, and workplace safety personnel at our training centre in Mokopane, approximately 60 km from Polokwane via the N1.
Our courses cover popular training needs in Polokwane and the wider Limpopo region, including forklift operation, lifting equipment, mining and earthmoving machinery, first aid, and workplace safety.
Learners from Polokwane can book the same courses at the same published fees and receive the same certificates as learners from other areas. Individual learners attend training at our Mokopane centre, while businesses that need to train several employees can request on-site training at their premises in Polokwane.
We have one training centre, located at 11 Van Riebeeck Street, Mokopane. We do not have a campus in Polokwane. Our centre is approximately 60 km from Polokwane via the N1.
If you are an individual learner travelling from Polokwane, you will attend your course at our Mokopane training centre. However, if your company needs to train several employees, you can enquire about on-site training in Polokwane.
For group bookings, we can arrange to deliver training at your company’s premises. Contact us with your location, the number of employees you need to train, and the course you require so we can prepare a quotation.
Find out more about our on-site training.
Forklift is the single most searched course in Polokwane, and it is not a mining ticket. The people who need it work in warehouses, retail distribution, factories, plant hire and municipal stores, which is most of the industrial side of Polokwane. If you operate a lift truck at work and have never been certified, this is the group you are looking at.
Course | Duration | Fee |
|---|---|---|
5 days | R6 010 | |
5 days | R6 010 | |
5 days | R6 010 | |
5 days | R6 010 | |
5 days | R5 630 |
The over-15-ton course is a separate certificate, not an add-on to the standard forklift ticket, so check the capacity of the machine you actually drive before you book. The full range sits under lifting machinery.
Polokwane sits at the southern end of a working mining belt, and this is the group most Polokwane searches for mining courses are after. The platinum and chrome operations north of the city, the civils contractors that service them and the municipalities between Polokwane and Mokopane all run the same machines, and all want an operator who can produce a current certificate.
Course | Duration | Fee |
|---|---|---|
5 days | R8 822 | |
5 days | R8 052 | |
5 days | R9 295 | |
5 days | R6 340 | |
5 days | R9 218 | |
5 days | R7 733 | |
5 days | R11 000 | |
5 days | R5 630 |
Dump truck comes in two forms and they are different certificates: the rigid is the 40-ton haul truck, the ADT is the articulated one. Ask the site which they run before you pay for either. Operators on a roads or civils contract often hold two or three of these tickets. A contractor who can put the same person on whatever machine is standing that morning loses fewer hours than one who cannot. Everything available is under earth moving machinery training.
This group is not about machines at all, which is why it is worth separating. These are the certificates an employer has to hold to satisfy the Occupational Health and Safety Act: somebody trained in first aid, somebody who can fight a fire, an elected safety representative, and anyone who works off the ground. A Polokwane company is usually buying these for compliance rather than for a single operator’s career.
Course | Duration | Fee |
|---|---|---|
2 days | R957 | |
2 days | R2 178 | |
3 days | R5 520 | |
2 days | R1 034 | |
2 days | R1 562 | |
2 days | R1 100 | |
2 days | R1 628 | |
2 days | R1 628 |
First Aid is three separate levels with three separate certificates. Level 1 at R957 is the cheapest certificate Fundza issues and it is what most workplaces need. What the law requires of your site is set out on the compliance pages, and the rest of this group sits under safety courses.
A short course here means two to five days, not a term or a year. The safety certificates are the two- and three-day courses; every machine ticket is a full five days, because the practical assessment on the machine is what the week is for. The range starts at R957, for First Aid Level 1, and tops out at R11 000 for the track dozer. Training and assessment both sit inside that figure.
Most machine tickets Fundza issues run for 24 months before a refresher is due. First Aid Level 1 and Level 3, both fire fighting levels and SHE rep are recorded at 36 months. A refresher is shorter and costs less than first-time certification — a one-day machine refresher rather than the full five. Every published figure is on the course fees page, and an employer can confirm a certificate through certificate verification.
Fundza does not provide accommodation. For a two-day course such as First Aid Level 1 or SHE rep that is rarely a problem, because learners drive in and back. A five-day machine course means five return trips, so learners coming from further afield than Polokwane usually arrange their own place to stay.
Courses run Monday to Friday and the office is open 07:30 to 16:30, so plan the drive around a morning start. What Fundza’s accreditation covers is set out on the accreditation page.
Fundza Training Institute
11 Van Riebeeck St, Mokopane, 0601
Limpopo
Monday to Friday, 07:30 to 16:30
087 630 2506
[email protected]
Directions and the enquiry form are on the contact page.
No. Fundza has one centre and it is in Mokopane, at 11 Van Riebeeck St, 60 km from Polokwane on the N1. Everyone who trains with Fundza, learners from Polokwane included, is assessed at that centre unless the course is being delivered at a company’s own premises.
Sixty kilometres, straight up the N1. It is the same road in both directions, so if you can get to Polokwane you can get to Mokopane. The street address and a map are on the contact page.
Most learners from Polokwane travel in and back. Fundza does not provide or arrange accommodation, so staying over for a five-day course is something you would book yourself. Courses run Monday to Friday and the office opens at 07:30.
Yes, and that is the one way the training happens in Polokwane rather than Mokopane. On-site delivery suits an employer with a crew to certify, because the people stay on the property and nobody loses days to travelling. Send through your headcount and the address, and the course is quoted on that — see on-site training.
All of them. The earthmoving group above is the full list Fundza certifies — dump truck in both forms, excavator, TLB, loader, grader, dozer and tipper — and every one of them runs at the Mokopane centre, 60 km away, or at a mine or contractor’s own site. The wider range sits under earth moving machinery training.
It is a five-day course, so it is five trips or a week of staying over, and it is the course Polokwane asks about more than any other. If your employer is certifying more than one operator it is worth asking about group bookings instead, because then nobody travels at all.
Phone 087 630 2506 or email [email protected] and the booking is handled from there. You only need to be at the centre on the first morning of the course. Published fees for every course are on the course fees page.
Book a course at the Mokopane centre, or ask for a quotation to train your Polokwane team on site.
