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President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed members of the Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)... read
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NADINE MATHER AND AMY GERSON
Since the Constitutional Court declared the private use of cannabis legal, employers have been required to consider how best to deal with the effects of personal cannabis use in the workplace...read
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It is important to fully understand and explore the various elements of BEE and the SME. The good news is that if you are an SME owner, BEE is far simpler and less onerous to implement than you may think...read
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Employer Branding
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RAVI PANTHI
An employee experience is defined as what people encounter, observe or feel during the course of their employee journey at an organisation. In short, employee experience is everything an employee experiences at work - their interactions with their boss, their team, work-place infrastructure and a multitude of other things... Read
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Employment Equity
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JESSICA TENNANT
Having won the same award in 2017, Nomacala Mpeta, head of learning at Digify Africa, explains why they're proud to be recognised a second time for leading the push for transformation in digital and encourages more agencies and NGOs to recognise the need to do so as a business imperative in corporate SA... Read
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The Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) Advisory Council has called for the declaration of a Transformation Week in the country to showcase best B-BBEE practice... Read
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ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA
Shining a spotlight on South Africa's significant milestone of 25 years of transformation and economic empowerment, winners in the 18th Annual Top Empowerment Awards were announced on Thursday, 11 April, in Johannesburg... Read
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Labour Law & Unions
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JACQUES VAN WYK
The DOL has developed a new system that will allow employees to report companies that fail to comply with the National Minimum Wage Act... Read
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Management
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed eight new board members to fill the vacancies on the Board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) with immediate effect... Read
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Skills Development & Training
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ISSUED BY UKZN EXTENDED LEARNING
This programme is designed to share the latest insights and content across areas of critical importance to senior executives and decision-makers in organisations... Read
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Roughly 6.21 million young South Africans without jobs, leaving many feeling hopeless and discouraged by the lack of opportunities... Read
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Talent Acquisition
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MICHELLE BARON-WILLIAMSON
With the reality of background screening steadily becoming a compulsory practice within the hiring process - what does this mean for candidates...? Read
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ISSUED BY GIRAFFE
Call centres are typically characterised by high work pressure and work overload, which can lead to stress and burnout, absenteeism, performance problems and attrition... Read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
The striking textile and knitwear designs conceived by South African golden boy Laduma Ngxokolo are not simply stylish collectables, they're vehicles of cultural preservation... Read
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Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa remains below 3%, three years after crisis... Read
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African Development Bank Board approves $4.8 million grant to accelerate African free trade... Read
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What if a mobile phone could prevent a health epidemic? It may sound like science fiction, but the WHO polio geographic information system (GIS) technology is doing just that in 43 countries in Africa. Read
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The latest figures released by the African Development Bank suggest the continent's infrastructure needs amount to between $130-170bn a year, with a current financing gap of $67-$107bn per annum... Read
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ANNE COCKCROFT & NEIL ANDERSSON
Nigerian women are at high risk of death related to pregnancy and child birth. Accurate figures are hard to come by, but the WHO estimates there are more than 800 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births in Nigeria... Read
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Facebook artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have created the world's most detailed population density maps of Africa to help humanitarian relief efforts... Read
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Government is set to launch the Affiliate Centre which will ensure South African industries move at an enhanced speed towards the fourth industrial revolution (4IR)... Read
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Current medical aid models for end-of-life care will pay for costly in-hospital care but won't pay for home-based care... Read
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MARIA SOTENKO
Solving environmental problems usually just means cleaning up the mess people have made. But scientists are increasingly interested in creating something valuable from pollution... Read
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This year marks the third edition of Inspiring Fifty South Africa, a non-profit initiative that benchmarks and awards the 50 most inspiring women in STEM... Read
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Healthcare sector stakeholders have long advocated for a single regulator, believing that the current dual framework creates a regulatory arbitrage not conducive to offering the consumer maximum protection... Read
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TARUN GURJAL
Artificial Intelligence implementation is set to increase in businesses between 2019 and 2020... Read
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Eskom has reviewed its winter plan, but has cautioned the country to use electricity sparingly as the demand for power is expected to increase this week as cold weather gets a grip on parts of South Africa... Read
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