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| An Anglo American business unit, Kumba Iron Ore's Kolomela mine has made history by producing the first entrepreneur to pay off his project loan in full and on time via its Small Business Development Centre. Maruping Matiti, owner of a small construction company in Postmasburg, is the first entrepreneur who has accomplished this milestone. read more>> |
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| Thabiso Mochiko MTN SA said last week that over 240 managers have taken voluntary retrenchment packages. The company embarked on a cost-reduction programme in August‚ following its poor financial performance. read more>> |
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| The announcement by the World Bank at the recent G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting that 600 million jobs will need to be created by 2030 in order to support the expanding global population is cause for major concern. read more>> |
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| Issued by CareerJunction The most recent salary review compiled by online labour market indicator, the CareerJunction Index (CJI), shows a 20% increase in salary offerings among managerial IT staff since the end of 2013... read more>> |
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| Lauren Salt and Sidasha Naidoo The Basic Conditions of Employment Amendment Act came into operation on 1 September 2014. The amendments see the insertion of s33A into the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, No 75 of 1997 (BCEA), which aims to prevent employers from requiring employees to make payments to secure employment. read more>> |
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| The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) plans to hold a symbolic "funeral march" for Gauteng's e-toll system over the weekend. read more>> |
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| Neville De Lucia Successful businesses are built by successful people. Poor management of any sales team will in effect see the result of poor profitability. As the saying goes, attitude reflects leadership! Nowhere is this more obvious to see than amongst an organisations sales team. read more>> |
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| With recent statistics showing that the South African workforce is at its most unproductive since 1967, companies are under pressure to turn the tide. Gys Kappers, CEO of Wyzetalk, takes a closer look at the issue. read more>> |
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| Louise Robinson Africa has been earmarked as a big growth market in which to operate, but you need to know what you're doing to achieve any kind of success in this dynamic environment... read more>> |
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| Investment in strong online customer-care strategies is becoming an imperative in the mobile operator industry, especially in Africa, where the first wave of smartphone users is on a rapid rise. Nonetheless, customer care agents are not properly equipped to deal with the daily onslaught of enquiries from a broad and growing range of internet-capable devices. read more>> |
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| Nick Hedley Basil Read's (BSR) restructuring of its executive management team was now complete following the appointment of a permanent financial director and chief executive according to the construction firm. read more>> |
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| As companies crack down on social media usage in the workplace, one aspect being overlooked is the fact that senior leaders are just as susceptible to the siren call of Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp updates as their junior colleagues, and that the impact of top-level timewasting is potentially more serious for both the individual and the company. read more>> |
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| The Department of Energy has confirmed that South Africa has signed an Inter-Governmental Framework Agreement on Nuclear Cooperation with France. read more>> |
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| Tertius Geldenhuys Data from a US-based Family Firm Institute indicates that family-owned enterprises are responsible for more than 70% of global GDP, but the key contributor to their demise is a lack of foresight in succession planning. read more>> |
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| Issued by IIR BV SA Always keeping ahead of industry evolutions; the 11th Annual HR Africa Summit, incorporating the HRD Expo, will be hosted from 27 to 31 October 2014, at The Forum, The Campus, Bryanston, Johannesburg... read more>> |
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| Ivanna Granelli There are few business operations that are more challenging from a human resources perspective than running a call centre... read more>> |
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| Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has illustrated how there is an urgent need to accelerate focused investment in research in Africa. read more>> |
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| SAN FRANCISCO, USA: The rise of smartphone use to access the internet has slowed the number of clicks on advertisements and cut into profits earned by Google in the third quarter of the year. revealed. read more>> |
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| In the past financial year 1,200 detectives resigned from the police, leaving a hole, that is going to have a big impact on the fight against crime, say experts. read more>> |
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| More Matshediso Gauteng's Department of Health says normal emergency services have not yet been badly affected by the illegal and unprotected strike of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers. read more>> |
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| The Deputy Minister in the Presidency, Buti Manamela, says young South Africans must make the most of the opportunities government has offered them and must take personal control of improving their lives read more>> |
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