DoC's bold job plan

"committed to creating 1m jobs, manufacturing set top and boxes achieving 100% broadband penetration in the county."

i think my brain just melted. thats it. im going to bed.
 
zamicro said:
I was thinking the same about the article. So the minister had a meeting. We know the goals. What is the plan?
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from what it sounds like, they want local industry to make the set-top boxes.
which means that local manufacturers will make (assemble) the boxes.
in order for quality to be maintained, certain suppliers will be awarded licenses based on their manufacturing ability (or political alignment)
i hope that's not the approach. creating jobs doesn't mean artificially creating supply or demand.
that generally ends up with corruption, inefficiency and increased price passed on to the consumer.
 
Oh, I get it- they will make the Set-top boxes "self-assembly" that way each family will have a "job" to "manufacture" their won set-top box. Lateral thinking on hitting the "jobs" numbers.

But seriously though, 1 million??? There are roughly 50 million South Africans, STB sales channels will not provide new jobs as they will just go in to existing stores along with all their other goods, so its just really maunfacturing and support. If they are made properly there should be virtually no support needed, do you really think there will be one SUSTAINABLE job created for every 50 (assuming every man, woman and child buys one) units made? Sure you need managers, admin, logistics and such but really? What happens after the initial phase when most people has one already- does the industry just collapse?
 
stricken said:
"committed to creating 1m jobs, manufacturing set top and boxes achieving 100% broadband penetration in the county."
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/sees all the focus has been on the STB part of this "statement" and not the latter part...

What is their plan to achieve 100% broadband penetration in South Africa?
 
MickeyD said:
What is their plan to achieve 100% broadband penetration in South Africa?
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I think this is as much as they can say: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadband/32088-broadband-for-all-by-2020-what-does-it-mean.html

Nothing that we have not heard before. It is so easy to say these things...but unless we see clear and measurable milestones along the way, which forms part of a clear plan with funding and the like, it is simply another promise like the myriad of promised which preceded this one.
 
Blah blah blah. Is there one single person out there that still believes these clowns?
 
rpm said:
I think this is as much as they can say: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadband/32088-broadband-for-all-by-2020-what-does-it-mean.html

Nothing that we have not heard before. It is so easy to say these things...but unless we see clear and measurable milestones along the way, which forms part of a clear plan with funding and the like, it is simply another promise like the myriad of promised which preceded this one.
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Yep, when the chickens come home to roost, these folks will be long gone with fat pensions and back pockets full of bounty.
 
rpm said:
I think this is as much as they can say: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadband/32088-broadband-for-all-by-2020-what-does-it-mean.html

Nothing that we have not heard before. It is so easy to say these things...but unless we see clear and measurable milestones along the way, which forms part of a clear plan with funding and the like, it is simply another promise like the myriad of promised which preceded this one.
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Yes, no point in even going there in this thread.

MickeyD said:
Yep, when the chickens come home to roost, these folks will be long gone with fat pensions and back pockets full of bounty.
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Agreed:( I wish they could put a 5 or 10 year hold clause on government bonuses - it would definitely make a huge difference. Basically move it to a trust account and if the stated deliverable is still being achieved in 5yrs then it gets paid out. Let them decide what to invest it in for that period so there are no complaints about FX changes, inflation etc.
 
Let me get this straight... They want to employ more than 1% of the country in communications?! Is it just me or does this seem a bit... unrealistic?

What are all those people going to do? That's approaching the amount of people employed in communications in the USA according to some stats from here: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm . The USAs information/communication sector is bigger (physically), more advanced, more established, more everything than ours. There's more than 200mil people in the USA for pete's sake! The usa is many times bigger than South Africa! Is this coming out of taxes or will the services these employees support actually mean something for the country economically speaking?

The okes must stop speaking from their bungholes.
 
The Trutherizer said:
Let me get this straight... They want to employ more than 1% of the country in communications?! Is it just me or does this seem a bit... unrealistic?

The okes must stop speaking from their bungholes.
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No I think they said
committed to creating 1m jobs, manufacturing set top and boxes achieving 100% broadband penetration in the county.
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Speaking from their bungholes would be preferable to wherever they get these ideas. We have roughly 12 million employed people (statsSA), they are going to increase semi-skilled to skilled employment by almost 9% in that timeframe? Please. We have heard plenty of promises about half a milliion jobs across the board for how long now? If gov can't get that right then how will they get this right?

A bigger question is where will this money magically come from? Minimum wage is somewhere around R1600 per month, so that equates to R19.2 Billion per annum. I can tell you one thing, the average consumer If there are roughly say 15 million families in SA and each one buys a STB that means the labour component to support the above salaries for one year is R1280, then you still need to add materials, transport, storage, insurance and all the other pricing components. If you look at it more realistically in terms of how quickly STBs will be sold the cost increases (holding new labour force number constant).

Surely as a minister THAT is what you should be looking at and explaining, not making outragious statements:erm:
 
Bern said:
No I think they said

"committed to creating 1m jobs, manufacturing set top and boxes achieving 100% broadband penetration in the county."

Surely as a minister THAT is what you should be looking at and explaining, not making outragious statements:erm:
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Oh yeah true. Plus what about the training costs involved. And assuming the device will connect to a TV (or am I misunderstanding there as well?) - Won't they have to buy like a gagillion TVs as well? Why not just get the Chinese to manufacture the things? I mean if we have 100% broadband the 1 million jobs will not be long to follow. Not long at all.
 
I think it's obvious. The minister will employ 1 million people to hand deliver set top boxes, thus creating 1 million jobs.

More seriously, were the government to be more serious in their attempts to create jobs, the first thing that they would do is enumerate the jobs to be created, then they would detail how and where training is to take place, followed by how the people will be deployed.

That is called planning ...
 
Roy's job creation plan reads exactly the same as Zuma's anti-corruption plan, i.e. it just ain't gonna happen.
 
Deputy Minister Kopeng Obed Bapela held a round table discussion with ICT SMMEs this morning and committed to creating 1m jobs, manufacturing [highlight]set top and boxes[/highlight] achieving 100% broadband penetration in the county.
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All other hair-brained aspects of this BS aside, would these be cardboard boxes that are going to manufactured?
 
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