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Oct 4, 2013 178 view(s)
Amolo Ng’weno - the Managing Director of Digital Divide Data (DDD) believes that the possibility of impact sourcing is increasing at a remarkable rate in Africa. The company came into existence just before two and a half years ago, but now it provides employment to around 300 youths, in which some of them are even having problem in hearing and are from the urban slums of Nairobi.She said “The demand of digital jobs is increasing globally and so Africa is thinking on this point of view seriously and image what DDD believes in and...
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Oct 1, 2013 182 view(s)
Members of AMCU at Anglo American Platinum will go for a strike to protest against the job cuts- declared by AMCU president Joseph Mathunjwa on Tuesday.He said that it will be a 48 hours strike and the notice was given to the company on Monday. The strike will start on Friday as Tuesday would be a public holiday in South Africa. The strike is to protest against Amplast, the world’s top platinum producer by their massive job cut of around 4800 workers laying off 3300 workers and paying off the rest. Anglo American had planned to...
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Sep 24, 2013 150 view(s)
According to a data from Statistics South Africa the rate of unemployment in South Africa is 25.6%, which is quarter than the economically active participants in our country. The youth rate lies in between 45% to 60% depending on the source consulted. Considerably lower skills and lack of opportunities are highly affecting our youth people. Important heads says that starting or running a business with an considerable initiative is a possible way of facing this situation among the youth’s. But before moving further with this...
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Sep 20, 2013 299 view(s)
South African workers are afraid of losing their jobs as Cuban Water engineers are coming to South Africa to help fix the Water Infrastructure. But Edna Molewa- the Water Affairs Minister said yesterday that the Cuban water engineers were not coming to steal South African jobs.According to an agreement signed by Molewa with the Cuban counterpart, Ines Chapman Waugh on September 9, 34 Cubans will come to South Africa to help in fixing water infrastructure.Molewa said that South Africans were lacking good skills which proposed to sign an...
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Sep 19, 2013 240 view(s)
South Africa is passing from the highest unemployment rate among the 40 emerging markets which were found by Bloomberg. It lost 28,000 non-farming jobs in the second quarter.According to a statistics given on the website by Pretoria, South Africa- The employment in the non-agricultural sector had fallen by 0.3% to 8.4 million from the first quarter. The data has been prepared by taking into consideration the companies registered to pay taxes.In first quarter, the Africa’s economy was found 0.9% which grew up to 3% in the second...
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Sep 19, 2013 149 view(s)
Department of Higher Education and Training officially estimated that 38,000 Further Education and Training (FET) students around the country yet do not have confirmation certificates regarding the completion of their studies. Some of the students are waiting since last six years.The scenario came to be known during the oversight visit by the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training in Durban. It is rather unfair that students have to wait for their certificates for a long time and in some cases even for six years. Upon this...
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Sep 17, 2013 163 view(s)
Absence of workers highly affecting the nation’s economy. 3.96 million workers were absent during the year due to sickness, which is a rather a large number than compared to the year 2000 in which it was 0.7 million.According to the latest Employment Index from Adcorp, the economy shed 34,645 jobs during August. However the biggest job loss was seen in the permanent jobs ,which shed 26,820 jobs during the month followed by 12,845 temporary jobs shed. Great job loss was seen in the mining sector, construction, transport and financial...
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Sep 13, 2013 165 view(s)
South Africa failed to keep the promise of creating five million jobs by 2020- said by Jacob Zuma on Wednesday. Upon being asking the reason by the National Council of Provinces, the president blamed the world economy for their failed attempt of job creation.He further added “It was needed to create half a million of jobs every year starting from 2010 to 2020 to achieve our goal of creating five million jobs in 10 years.” He told MP’s that “However this has not happened because the world economy had yet to be...
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Sep 5, 2013 429 view(s)
Microsoft SA to tie up with the government’s job fund and restart its BizSpark programme to help create some tech jobs by the next three years - declared by Microsoft on Tuesday. This refreshed programme supports small software development companies and will be funded by the Jobs Fund and Microsoft’s 4Afrika Initiative. They will give qualified local software development startup access to develop tools and also provide business support through accelerators and incubators. The programme will also connect them to the important...
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Aug 21, 2013 154 view(s)
The world biggest platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum, has declared to shed off around 7 000 jobs from its African mines, where in approx 900 are corporate and overhead employees will also be affected. This announcement was immediately caught by severe criticism from some powerful unions of SA giving rise to another violence where dozens of workers were killed last year. Amplats had aimed for 14 000 job cuts, but reduced the number after series of strikes by various unions.Not only blue-collar workers but white-collar workers would...
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Aug 13, 2013 195 view(s)
South African Democratic Alliance DA to handle the ongoing unemployment crisis in SA by introducing some new plan in Gauteng. Because according to them the Province of Gold needs a government which can offer jobs in the market, as the other provinces in the country are doing.They will work to provide various opportunities to the youths, help them in finding employment, develop various skills in them, and play an effective role in the economic development of South Africa. DA will implement proposals with different measures that will be...
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Aug 13, 2013 173 view(s)
As been declared by the department of rural development and land reform on Saturday, in the past four years a remarkable growth is being seen in the rural areas as nearly about 35,000 jobs were created. Youths were provided training in different areas like waste water management, water purification, construction, electricity and agriculture. Mtobeli Mxotwa said “The department of the rural development and land reform created around 35,000 jobs and provided employment to 17,279 individuals in the countryside with different skills...
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Aug 10, 2013 181 view(s)
According to the latest data by the African Development Bank, President Jacob Zuma will fail to fulfill his promise he had given in 2011 to create 5m jobs in 10 years. Said by Lindiwe Mazibuko- the Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader on Thursday.Considering the African Economic Outlook for 2013 report, Mazibuko said that “SA is holding the position in bottom three in the whole Africa, followed by Swaziland and Equatorial Guinea.” The report stated the GDP growth for SA only 2.8% which is nearly half of the...
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Aug 9, 2013 223 view(s)
Pick n Pay, SA’s second biggest grocer recently declared that it may shed some of the management positioned jobs and in-turn reduce operating costs after the annual profit had fallen down to 51%. However any further exact details are not yet declared by the HR director Isaac Motaung. The Cape town based company is passing from the weakest operating margins in its industry, highly affected by the increased cost pressure and slumping profits. Voluntary resignation letters were being offered to the employees without specifying the exact...
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Aug 8, 2013 146 view(s)
A new community based project was being released at a ceremony by SA’s minister of Water and Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa. According to them improving the management of natural resources and investing in the agriculture could surely increase the South Africa’s crop output by almost quarter and also create 170,000 additional jobs in the market. This step will also in turn increase the water availability in the country.Agriculture, energy, transport and resource management are the four key economic factors for green management. Sustained...
