Regulations enable organisations to develop graduates
Organisations need to play a more active role in developing engineering capacity in South Africa, as new regulations are in place to provide available funding for graduate training, says South African...
View ArticleOrion education initiative ‘well received’, says COO
JSE- and ASX-listed Orion Minerals’ introductory mining familiarisation short courses within the Siyathemba municipality, in the Northern Cape, have raised public awareness of the mining industry and...
View ArticlePerdekraal East Wind Farm turbine foundations completed ahead of schedule
The developers of the Perdekraal East Wind Farm, in the Western Cape, last week completed the project’s 48 wind turbine foundations – three weeks ahead of schedule and still within budget. The first of...
View ArticleDenel confirms salary cut; union expresses shock and concern
State-owned defence industrial group Denel confirmed on Tuesday that it will pay its staff only 85% of their salaries for this month. “Due to ongoing liquidity challenges we are now faced with...
View ArticleSA adds 22 000 jobs in first quarter of 2019 – Stats SA
Employment in South Africa's non-agricultural formal sector grew by 22 000 in the first quarter of 2019, Stats SA announced on Tuesday in its latest Quarterly Employment Statistics bulletin. This...
View ArticleAmsol continues to make strides on economic empowerment
Specialist marine solutions provider African Marine Solutions’ (Amsol’s) employee share ownership scheme has benefited about 370 employees, who own shares for the first time. The scheme was introduced...
View ArticleConcerns about not being employed trouble 39% of graduates – PPS Index
Financial services provider PPS has revealed that 39% of students are concerned that they may not be employed immediately after their tertiary education. PPS released its 2018 Student Confidence Index,...
View ArticleEducation integral to solving manufacturing industry’s skills shortage
Solving the skills challenge in South Africa’s manufacturing industry and working towards its solution will require not only the identification of the skills needed now to meet short-term demand, but...
View ArticleGrowth in remuneration at an all-time low, says PwC
The South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB’s) latest quarterly bulletin showed that growth in remuneration paid to workers in the private and public sector had dropped from 5.5% year-on-year in the third...
View ArticleCompany recognised for upliftment project
The corporate social responsibility arm of consulting engineering firm Bosch Projects, Bosch Ulwazi has offered 200 unemployed young people in Peddie, in the Eastern Cape, jobs focussing on...
View ArticleFirst customer day at new location hosted
Engineering firm Bosch Rexroth South Africa Group of Companies held its first customer day last month at its new location, named Hytec United By Bosch (HUBB), in Kempton Park, Gauteng.
View ArticleUnion gets set to oppose Necsa restructuring plan
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) has asserted that it had “reliably learnt” that the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation’s (Necsa’s) Board was proposing to retrench...
View ArticleSolidarity serves Denel with demand to take legal action
Trade union Solidarity on Friday said it had served state arms manufacturer Denel with a demand under section 165 of the Companies Act to take immediate legal action against those responsible for the...
View ArticleMakhura hands Lesufi a mammoth task at Gauteng SoPA
Gauteng Premier David Makhura has ordered Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi to produce annual primary school results. Speaking at his State of the Province Address (SoPA) on Monday, Makhura said Lesufi was...
View ArticleWits, Gold Fields deepen collaboration to enhance deep-level mining skills,...
Mining students at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), with the support of gold miner Gold Fields, are building South Africa’s capacity to apply mechanised mining methods and supporting...
View ArticleNo significant changes in transformation, says BBBEE Commission
No significant changes happened in the levels of transformation during 2018, with black ownership reflecting a decline to 25.2% last year, from 27% in 2017, and management control still sitting at 38%...
View ArticleSouth Africa ranked the thirtieth most attractive country for expats
Quality of life, career progress and the climate are the top reasons cited by people who move to South Africa to work, according to the twelfth annual league table published by HSBC Expat. The...
View ArticleSaice bemoans the exodus of engineers from South Africa
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (Saice) has called for urgent intervention by government to attract engineers who have been emigrating at an alarming rate back to South Africa....
View ArticleNational minimum wage not the jobs poison pundits feared – Minister Nxesi
Minister of Employment and Labour Thulas Nxesi told reporters in Parliament on Wednesday that the employment market had taken well to the National Minimum Wage since it was signed into law, with only...
View ArticlePort operators’ 4IR strategies must have skills development focus
African port operators need to formulate Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) strategies and should take into account the skills readiness and the skills development required to adjust and adapt...
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