We're all aware of the unemployment problem in this country, but other than thousands and thousands of words, the issue has not seen any great change, but now a warning has been sounded... Evan Pickworth, addressing an economic conference last week pointed out a stark warning on the potential threat we face in the form of
rebellion by a jobless youth, desperate and frustrated.
We need to sit up and take notice - and then actually do what is needed to defuse what could be a very explosive situation.
On the mobile front, Mark Schefermann looks at
the future of the mobile voice.
So why were they closed in the first place? After years of calls from various quarters to re-open the teacher training colleges, which the government closed soon after taking power, the Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande has now announced that
teacher training colleges are to re-open. Many might say, about time, but too late... the education system is already a shambles.
Don't you wish you were a consultant to a government department? Well, perhaps you are...if so, you should be happy with your share of the
R24.6bn spent on consultants in a three-year period - yes, that's R24,600,000,000. Now the Office of the Auditor General has called for stricter controls on the use of consultants by government. To put this into perspective: if you spent R10,000 a day, every day, to spend this amount of cash would take you 2,460,000 days - or six thousand, seven hundred and fifty eight years and three months. Happy spending!
Onto some good news...
Kruger has reopened roads, camps and picnic spots.
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The Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has kept the repo rate unchanged at 5% in line with market expectations. 
The Presidency says it is "disappointed and surprised" by the one-sided First National Bank campaign. 
Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) is discussing "with concerned parties" its planned retrenchment of nearly 14,000 mineworkers at its mines. 
Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk embarked on a media roadshow in Beijing on Wednesday, 23 January 2013, to celebrate the growth in tourism between China and South Africa. 
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has set up a transformation committee for universities, nearly five years after a racist incident in the Free State sparked a probe. 
The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has defended the disposal of military helicopter airframes and spares to Zimbabwe amid threats of legal action to stop the move. 
NEWSWATCH: An ANC delegation is to meet with FNB representatives today at 11am at Luthuli House to discuss First National Bank's 'You Can Help Campaign', reports IOL, which also reports that the Democratic Alliance wants a probe of state adspend in The New Age. 
The Congress of SA Trade Unions in Gauteng said on Monday (28 January) it was planning renewed protests against e-tolling. The protests will start in February. 
Plans to re-introduce teacher training colleges were underway with one former college scheduled to re-open this week according to Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande. 
