Skills crisis is holding back investment and growth: Mavuso

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Mangers from a group of French businesses that collectively employ more than 65 000 South Africans have not been able to get work permits. This means considering relocating their African operations to other countries. Moneyweb BusinessNews BusiMavuso2

Organised business had a good meeting last week with the National Energy Crisis Committee alongside other organised business leaders.

has been established in terms of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s energy crisis plan. We discussed the support it needs from business to achieve a rapid rollout of new generating capacity and improve the stability of existing infrastructure. It was a good meeting and I believe business will be able to assist, especially in terms of mobilising scarce skills that are needed – engineers, project managers, and others.

in its effort to fund and attract the skills critically needed to deal with the energy crisis, than we are confronted with an area of serious government dysfunction that would make this difficult. There appears not even to be any ability by Home Affairs to prioritise different applications, with everyone from junior engineers to CEOs stuck in the same backlog.

and government more broadly, but it would be so much easier if our bureaucratic and regulatory functions were working the way they are meant to. This isn’t even a call for policy change – this is implementation of existing policy. The Operation Vulindlela programme of the Presidency and National Treasury has made good progress on several fronts, including getting a scarce skills list finalised and pushing forward with e-visas for tourists.

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