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1. Skills: Find a way to stop the flight of highly skilled, experienced pilots, flight engineers, sub-mariners and technical staff

2. Equipment: Replace ageing equipment, such as the C130 heavy transport aircraft and clamp down on the number of weapons disappearing.

3. Ill-discipline: Deal with wayward troops. Since 2002, more than 2 000 SANDF members have faced charges for crimes – including murder, rape and robbery – allegedly committed while on peace-keeping missions on the continent.

4. HIV/Aids: Deal with the impact of the disease on the SANDF. NKOSAZANA DLAMINI-ZUMA: HOME AFFAIRS Minister

1. Draw the line: Restore the integrity of the National Population Register database and devise a humane policy to deal with border controls, refugees and economic migrants

2. Who Am I?: Provide citizens with easier and more efficient ways of accessing birth and death certificates and ID documents

3. Stop the rot: Root out endemic corruption in Home Affairs offices and make systems more secure

4. National pride: Restore the international reputation of SA passports and travel documents. NOSIVIWE MAPISA NQAKULA: CORRECTIONAL SERVICES Minister

1. Safety first: Sort out the problems created when Sondolo IT withdrew their security staff without training Correctional Services staff.

2. Overcrowding: Work with police, courts and legislators to reduce overcrowding and speed up the construction of the new mega-prisons.

3. Beef up staff: Find people to fill the many vacant posts – especially doctors and nurses.

4. Contracts: Explain why Bosasa, under investigation by the Special Investigation Unit, was re-awarded the prisons’ catering contract.

1. Flying start: Find a CEO for SAA. Take a long, hard look at the national carrier and decide whether it shouldn’t be privatised instead of requiring regular cash injections of billions of taxpayers’ rands.

2. Build up: Help Eskom find ways of financing its massive building programme.

3. New structures: Sort out Denel’s restructuring.

1. Jobs, jobs, jobs: Devise ways of helping sectors under pressure from the economic slow-down, including clothing and textiles, the auto industry and food production.

2. Policy: Dot the i’s and cross the t’s on the National Industrial Policy Framework in conjunction with the Department of Trade and Industry

3. Small is beautiful: Focus on micro-economic policy tweaks and changes to open up the formal economy to more of the country’s citizens

4. A new agenda: give content to the idea of a developmental state that intervenes in a targeted, strategic way to transform the economy.MAITE NKOANE-MASHABANE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND CO-OPERATION Minister

1. Goodbye: Get an exit strategy for Robert Mugabe to ensure the next government after the transition does not reverse the relative political stability.

2. Review: Convince the cabinet to review its stance on our relations with countries that irk China.

3. Benefit: Use South Africa’s economic and political power to influence democratisation of the continent.

4. Tell all: Ensure efficient communications to South Africans on the country’s key decisions.