Everyone complains about the skills shortage, but no one does anything about it. But is that true? Brainstorm gathered as many skills and training experts as it could find and asked them some pointed questions: How bad is the skills crisis? Is it as bad overseas? How can government help? How do we stop poaching and start looking at the bigger picture?

Present to share their insights were: Stephen Bracher, business delivery manager at IQ Business Group; Haseena Parak, managing director of Staff IT; Teryl Schroenn, managing director of Accsys; Gary McHugh, director of Brighthouse; Lucas Mothupi, director of Satreno; David Ives, developer & platform strategy lead at Microsoft South Africa; Johan van Jaarsveld, managing director of EOH Outsourcing; Steve Randles, managing director of Khanyisa Real Systems; Sean Petersen, national resource manager of M-IT Mthombo; and Peter Clark, CEO of iSolve Business Solutions. Brainstorm: How bad is the skills shortage in the rest of the world?