INTERVIEW: SA needs urgent injection of entrepreneurs and rainmakers, but our schooling works against it.

Guest:Jon Foster - Pedley, Chair of the British Chamber of Business in southern Africa. He is also dean and director of Henley Business School Africa.]

One of the most vexing questions of our times in this country is how to address the joblessness crisis; more specifically, the ticking time bomb that is youth unemployment. We cannot create jobs if we do not stimulate the economy, encourage the rapid growth of existing businesses, and create new ones argues our guest this evening. He further highlights that the inherent benefit of this strategy is that its success will also reflect in the long-awaited racial transformation of the ownership of the economy. This concern is becoming as pressing as unemployment in this our 30th anniversary of democracy.