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For the many Zimbabwean nationals living in South Africa – and their employers – the upcoming expiry date for the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP), has been a cause for major concern. The ZEP was initially established to allow Zimbabweans in South Africa, legal and illegally living and working here, to come forward and regularise their stay – without the need to apply for regular visas.

A blueprint is emerging for online retailers in South Africa. Ahead of Amazon entering the local market, setting up a titanic battle for customers with market leader Takealot, a new study shows that there is not only room for new entrants, but also opportunity for growth for incumbents.

It’s a brand new year, and if you have your sights set on a big career move - or better yet - on landing your dream job in 2023, your Curriculum Vitae (CV) has to be up to scratch first. If updating it has been on your to-do list for a while, it’s time to jump into action so you can take that exciting next step in your career.

“While spending on government consumption has been held down over the last ten years, demand for public services has increased substantially. Meanwhile, as public employment in health, education and criminal justice has stagnated, employment by private companies providing the same services has surged.

Education has been repeatedly identified as one of the most important ingredients to ending the majority of South Africans’ cycles of poverty. Yet it is the government’s stranglehold over education – which it maintains precisely in the name of “social justice” – that ensures general education retains a poor quality and only contributes to the cycle. South Africa should be a world leader in the liberalisation of education.

The conversation started poorly and deteriorate from there. “Triple or single phase?” was his opening gambit. And already I was stumped. “How do I tell?” was my weak retort … and already I could feel his eyes rolling on the other side of the phone.

Economist Thomas Sowell said: “It is not what education teaches us directly, but how well it prepares us to learn ourselves that is the ultimate measure of its value.”

We’re living in a world of radical shift. And yet, our education system harks back to a bygone era. I believe that not only that we are facing a great opportunity to change the way we learn, but in fact, that we need to reimagine education completely, and see it as a process of learning, unlearning and relearning, throughout our professional lives.

This article by Kerryn Kohl, co-founder of 4thTalent, is about developing competence for the future world of work and is the first-part of a five-part series on the Future of Education run by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).

A pandemic has hit the World, causing every country to reset and take a step back, assess its strengths, weaknesses, areas in need of development, and importantly also those priorities which now do not seem to be that important.