Employment and Labour Minister Nomakhosazana Meth has announced a R350 million commitment towards a government and business partnership aimed at placing 130 000 young people into learning and employment opportunities.
Delivering the Department of Employment and Labour’s Budget Vote 31 speech in Parliament on Tuesday, Meth said the intervention forms part of government’s intensified efforts to tackle the country’s worsening unemployment crisis.
“The latest Statistics South Africa (STATS SA) report reminds us of a reality that South Africa’s economic recovery is not translating into jobs,” the Minister said.
South Africa’s official unemployment rate increased from 31.4% in the fourth…
Cricket: Cricket is also extremely popular, with the national team, known as the
Proteas, competing at the highest international levels.
Sherwood Gladiator
Eina! – ouch! [Ay-na] Usually expressed when someone experiences a sharp pain of some sort.
Lucky Aurora
Van der Merwe is approached by SANRAL one day who want to build a new highway through his donkey farm. Van is really concerned with how his donkeys can get from one side of the farm to the other without having to cross the highway and risk being injured or killed. He is promised that they will build bridges the highway so that his donkeys can cross under the highway. Van agrees and gives them the go-ahead.
The highway is built and a year later the same rep goes to the farm to go see how Van and his donkeys are. He eventually finds Van under one of these bridges chipping away at the roof of the tunnel with a hammer and chisel.
\”Mnr Van de Merwe, what are you doing damaging the highway bridge?\”