The so called skills shortage is a joke. I have over 17 yrs experience in the IT field and am very good at my job. A year and a half ago the outsourced customer I worked for relocated from Durban to Gauteng and I was offered the opportunity to either relocate or be retrenched. I chose the retrenchment thinking that I would get a job pretty easily. For the next 6 months I applied for every job I could and was told that I would be great but I would either have to take a big pay cut or paint myself black (this is not racist it is a fact of SA life). I eventually had to leave my family behind and come to the UK where I got an excellent job within 2 days of arriving. For the year I have been here I have kept on applying for jobs back in SA but still get the same responses that I did when I was in SA that is even if the agencies even bother to reply which most dont.

I would return tomorrow to help aleviate the skills shortage but until the government lets people get by on their skills instead of their colour I wiont be able to.

That is my 2 cents worth.