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• 146 – the number of countries with which South Africa has diplomatic relations.
• 365 000 people were employed during 2011 – the country’s best performance since the recession of 2008.

Opportunities for further study

National certificate (Vocational)

The FET College sector is a result of the merger of the former 152 technical colleges into 50 FET Colleges with multi-campus sites.
These campuses are distributed throughout South Africa and serve rural, peri-urban and urban communities. The geographic distribution provides opportunities for communities to access skills development courses.

When Meshack Fhumulani Nemudzivhadi landed at then Johannesburg Technical College after matriculating at Tshinanga Secondary School in Venda, his aim was to improve his matric results so he could be able to meet the required marks to go study medicine.

Namibian-born Nadia Lubowski, is passionate about her work as a teacher. She completed a diploma in Early Childhood Development Diploma at the College of Cape Town and won the best student award. "I am extremely fortunate to have an aunt who really believed in me and paid for my studies at the FET college," she said. This opportunity has opened many doors for Nadia and helped her to realise her life passion.

Armed with a university degree, young 30-year-old Itumeleng Mokoena was confident that her three years of study would finally pay off with a lucrative job. But her high hopes and dreams were short lived when six months after graduating she still found herself walking up and down the streets of Johannesburg in search of the elusive pot of gold.

Ilembe District Municipality has five dynamic new entrepreneurs who are eager to make their dreams a reality.

As winners of the Ilembe Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Tourism’s (ICCIT) Entrepreneur competition, the young entrepreneurs won a share of R220 000 in seed capital donated by African Bank and Enterprise Ilembe. In addition, they won a year’s membership at the chamber and a year of business mentoring from a chamber mentor.

Implats bursaries are open to all candidates meeting the minimum criteria of a university exemption pass and a minimum C Symbol in Mathematics, English and Science.

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Should you be awarded an implats bursary, you will be required to work for the company for the full period of the bursary and undertake vacation work at the end of each year.

Implats offers bursaries in the following fields:

Bursaries awarded to 146 full-time students this year will go a long way towards improving health services in Gauteng. The Gauteng Department of Health and Social Development awarded the bursaries for studies in health sciences at various tertiary institutions.

"Invest in yourselves" was the message from Education MEC Barbara Creecy to 1 703 top matriculants who received bursaries for further study. The bursaries, totalling R120 million, were awarded by the Gauteng Provincial Government to top performing learners from impoverished, under-performing and no-paying schools in Gauteng.

State of the Nation Address special

The focus of President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address (SoNA) on 9 February 2012 was on infrastructure development and how this would grow the economy and create jobs.