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To Get a higher education or not in South Africa

August 21, 2007

To Start, I would say most definitely! If you don’t, prepare yourself for the fiercest battle of your life. Life is not easy with merely a school education. With just the completion of school (as we call it "matric" or "Matriculation") you would be entitled to mediocre jobs such as tellers in banks and grocery stores. Your best bet would be to start your own business, if you can get the right capital within hand. A sad reality is even if you lucky enough to land yourself a good job, you have a bigger battle keeping your job, as most companies feel no emotion in retrenching you and filling your position with a qualified individual. This is a sad process as I know this as it has just happened to a lady in my department. She has worked at the company for going on 25 years and now she is being replaced by a university graduate. Well it may seem like I have an issue with graduates, but I can’t because I am one. The possibility of me taking someone else’s job is extremely high. This is why life in the corporate world has become so difficult, and feels... [More]

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