Both President Jacob Zuma and Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel, have proposed a new Growth Path policy salary and bonus cap for senior managers and executives earning more than R550 000 a year. This will also affect those who receive increases while earning more than R20,000 a month.

Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande expressed his concern over governments failed attempts to improve the quality of education. The gaps between schooling, tertiary education and the job market continues to expand.

Minister of Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk extended the National Department of Tourism’s Youth Chef training programme to include a programme for sommeliers or wine stewards.

The job market is all about having transferable skills and remembering that every skill you have learnt, in every type of environment, can always be honed and redistributed.

A system developed by postgraduate Stellenbosch University (SU) students to improve the living conditions of residents in informal settlements, will soon be scaled up thanks to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.