(1) Whether her department as a major shareholder in Telkom has (a) ensured that steps have been taken to exhaust all avenues to retain staff as they are the major stakeholders and (b) undertaken any reskilling or preparation of staff to be retrenched at Telkom; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; (2) whether her department is determined to proceed with the laying off of staff irrespective of the President’s call for the creation of 5 million jobs by 2015; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details?