So what are we going to do about it? We all know our state education system is a shambles, and now that has been confirmed after SA was rated as
bottom of class in maths and science. It's yet another extremely dubious "honour" this country has earned. The question is: how will our shambolic "education" system be fixed?
And if you are in the NPO sector, it's time to be afraid, very afraid... According to
Inyathelo executive director Shelagh Gastrow, if proposed amendments affecting the BEE code go through as is, NPOs and charities
could go under - and that means many thousands of children and adults currently being helped, will be affected.
Trying to benefit our exports by
'managing' the rand will not help exporters say a number of experts. In any event, one says, the market is far too large for us to influence it to any effective extent.
Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande says bankers need to be taught
courses in sociology, apparently in order to develop a social consciousness about the effects of lending.
And to end, Bizcom's very own "brute in a suit", motoring editor Henrie Geyser, says the new Chevrolet Trailblazer is - just as he is...
a brute in a suit.
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Inyathelo: The South African Institute for Advancement is warning that the proposed amendments to the broad-based black economic empowerment code could have a serious impact on charities and the non-profit sector as a whole. 
There are still "some difficulties" that need to be addressed before the Gauteng e-tolls can be implemented‚ Business Unity SA (Busa) said last week after comments by government confirmed that e-tolls would go ahead as planned. 
The "revolving door for executives" at Telkom may next claim CEO Pinky Moholi, a Telkom veteran who was appointed to the helm last year. 
Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande says bankers need to be taught courses such as sociology in order to develop a social consciousness about the effects of lending. 
President Jacob Zuma said it was wrong and scientifically not true that the gap between the rich and poor had widened since 1994, and that this amounted to an attack on the democratic government. 
After years of poor performances in education rankings, SA finally hit rock bottom in an international measure of the quality of maths and science education. 
While South Africa's economic activity expanded in the second quarter, economic growth is likely to slow in the coming months, says the Reserve Bank. 
There was drama at Telkom's annual general meeting when shareholders‚ presumably led by the majority shareholder‚ the government‚ voted against the re-election and election of independent directors. 
State-owned arms manufacturer Denel made an urgent plea yesterday for the government to disburse the R700m allocation it had committed to for use by its ailing subsidiary Denel Aerostructures. 
South Africa's population has swelled from 40.5 million in 1996 to 51.7 million in 2011, results of Census 2011 have shown. In the previous Census conducted in 2001, South Africa's population stood at 44.8 million. 
The SA Police Service (SAPS) has been interdicted from filling a vacancy occupied by a union member in a temporary capacity, trade union Solidarity said on Thursday. 
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