. There needed to be an increase in the budget of the health care sector in order to improve the health care and related services. This was due to the fact that since 1997, there has been stagnation in the funding allocations for the public health care sector which together with an increasing disease burden had put the public health care system under severe pressure; . There was a need to evaluate the quality and impact of training in government; and . There was a need for better coordination in the manner in which the post-schooling institutions worked with each other in building stronger links between training and the needs of the economy.