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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.

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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. 

Legitimate beneficiaries of government grants need not panic with the planned re-registration drive, said Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini.

In April, the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) will be transformed into a new structure with more powers and stronger teeth.

Policing should not just be a career but a special calling, said Deputy Police Minister Makhotso Sotyu.

They used to live below the bread line, surviving on menial jobs, but today they are proud entrepreneurs manufacturing school uniforms for learners from underprivileged families. Their flourishing project is like a golden thread that benefits more than 250 learners from six schools in the area.