Vision
This Act was promulgated by government in 1998, in the mist of high levels of unemployment, low levels of investment in the South African labour, pronounced disparities in income distribution, inequality of opportunity as a result of apartheid and poverty. (Brendan and Down, 2000). Through this Act, the government aimed to address two main priorities, i.e. the need to improve skills and increase productivity in order to compete successfully in global economy, and the need to reverse apartheid imbalances and to create a more inclusive and cohesive society. (Erasmus and Van Dyk, 2003)
Read more about this topic: The Skills Development Act 97 Of 1998
Famous quotes containing the word vision:
“Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the bigger picture, I don’t feel that it was violent and terrible. I feel like it was primarily—obviously not completely—moral, based on a vision that the government should be better, and that people could be better, and that democracy should be real.”
—Bernardine Dohrn (b. 1942)
“At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)