SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
BREAKING THE UNEMPLOYMENT CYCLE
Hundreds of young people in Mpumalanga are get-ting new skills to help them enter the job market. This is due to the provincial government’s Joint Initiative for Priority Skills Acquisition (Jipsa) programme and the National Youth Service Programme.
What are skills?
To have skills means you have the ability to do specific things well. Different people have different skills and talents.
How are skills developed?
Skills are developed through learning and training. At school we learn basic skills like reading, writing and maths. After school, we get more skills at institutions of higher learning like universities and colleges. If you are an apprentice, you learn from someone who is experienced.
What are scarce skills?
THE COST OF LIVING
SURVIVING THE RISE IN FOOD PRICES
If you are finding that you are spending more money on food than a few months ago, you are not alone. Rising food and fuel prices is a world-wide problem that affects everyone. In the three years since 2005, food prices in South Africa have gone up rapidly. All of us must learn to be more clever and careful when buying food.
Greater need
IMBIZO WEEK
SAVE ELECTRICITY AND HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE
The energy emergency affects all of us. During imbizo meetings in April, government officials talked to communities about the problem and how everyone could help to save energy.
PROGRESS ON 2010
FIFA PRAISES 2010 PREPARATIONS
FIFA World Cup organisers are very happy with South Africa's preparations for the 2010 World Cup. The world soccer body and the 2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC) had an inspection tour to six of the ten 2010 World Cup stadiums recently.
Lindani Dhlamini believes in getting up and doing things for herself. She owes much of her success as a business woman to this attitude and to financial help from government's Umsobomvu Youth Fund. 
Her company, Xabiso Chartered Accountants, is one of a few black, female-owned companies in the accounting industry.
SOUTH AFRICAN MICRO-FINANCE APEX FUND (SAMAF)
Treat customers with dignity and respect
LIMPOPO
A number of 2010 projects have been completed in Polokwane. These include the upgrading of the bus terminal, the widening and extension of a number of streets and the completion of a study to develop an intelligent transport system. A project to install a closed-circuit television (CCTV) network in the centre of Polokwane, which started on 30 March 2009 and is expected to be completed on 20 April 2010, is already 70 percent complete.
- BuaNews
MPUMALANGA
One of government's main priorities over the next five years, is to provide better healthcare for all South Africans. To achieve this goal, many health facilities throughout the country will be getting a face lift. The Department of Health has identified a number of facilities that will be upgraded to bring them in line with national health standards.
Six priority areas where improvements can be made within the country's healthcare sector were identified.