Business Formal sector employment drops by 133,000 in Q3 2024 – Stats SA Cape Town – Data from Statistics South Africa reveals a 1.2% decline in formal sector employment, with a loss... Read more 13 Dec, 2024
Countries Home Affairs launches digital recruitment platform Cape Town – The Department of Home Affairs has launched a new e-recruitment platform as part of its digital... Read more 9 Dec, 2024
Countries Workers have slept outside City Hall for a month, hoping to get jobs back Former Expanded Public Works Programme worker Ntsoaki Tautona has been living with other protesting workers in the gardens near... Read more 21 Nov, 2024
Business Jobs of the future: SA has major gaps in skills needed to shape the green economy Sean Kruger, University of Pretoria Globally, there’s a shortage of people with the expertise and skills needed to drive... Read more 11 Nov, 2024
Business End of coal in SA: what 100,000 workers will need when their jobs go Francois Steenkamp, University of Cape Town South Africa’s move to renewable energy means that the coal industry will be... Read more 23 Oct, 2024
Countries Macpherson, Hill-Lewis welcome eviction order of illegal occupants at Castle of Good Hope Cape Town — Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean MacPherson, welcomed a court order which stipulates all occupants... Read more 21 Sep, 2024
Business Villagers live next to a platinum mine, but have no jobs People living in villages close to the Bokoni platinum mine about 60km south-east of Polokwane, march to the regional... Read more 12 Sep, 2024
World Bangladesh suspends job quotas after student protests Bangladesh – Bangladesh’s top court on Wednesday temporarily suspended quotas for coveted government jobs after thousands of students staged... Read more 10 Jul, 2024
Countries ‘We are not fooled’ – Ndlozi critiques R8.4bn youth skills initiative Cape Town – EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has criticised Gauteng’s Nasi Ispani programme, which has a budget of R8.4bn... Read more 19 May, 2024
Countries ANC will make good on promise to create 2.5 million jobs – Mbalula Cape Town — African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula, says the party intends to fulfill its goal of... Read more 2 May, 2024