QUESTION TIME

It had been, to some extent, a follow-up to the column of the previous week also entitled An Appropriate human resources development (HRD) Strategy, "which had taken note of the impressive development initiatives of Mauritius education, training, production and trade .

One of the basic thrusts of my lost column, however, had to do with a reported "poor performance of the manufacturing sector in dragging down growth "in South Africa, according to figures recently released by Statistics SA on August 29.