Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (ASGISA)

If JIPSA (joint initiative on priority skills acquisition) is to succeed we need to bring in foreign skills to train up our people.  This seems to be an accepted fact, unless you are Cosatu – "the importation of so-called scarce skills undermines the process of local skills development and transfer".  This attitude has been described […]

South Africa has hired Akira Goshi of the Japan Productivity Centre for Socioeconomic Development to help develop a productivity blueprint for the next five years.  According to a report in today’s Sunday Times (Productivity just too low, pay too high) SA can become more globally competitive if it works on its productivity.  The article is