MSI assists young people with business development skills
The Mpumalanga Stainless Initiative (MSI) will from next week run an entrepreneurship programme to assist young people to effectively start businesses or scale up existing small businesses into...
View ArticleFulbright scholarships open for South Africans to study in the US
The US Mission to South Africa has opened applications for its Fulbright scholarship programme. The Fulbright Foreign Student Program is a competitive scholarship that funds postgraduate study in the US.
View ArticleWits pays tribute to Professor Emeritus Huw Phillips
The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) has paid tribute to the late Professor Emeritus Huw Phillips – a Wits stalwart known for his teaching, research and leadership in mining engineering the world...
View ArticleLearning academy continues to develop local skills
Automotive manufacturer Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) continues to develop skills for the future through its learning academy, which prioritises the development of skills in the automotive industry...
View ArticleANC’s proposed solutions to unemployment frustrating, says BLSA
In her latest weekly newsletter, published on January 31, industry association Business Leadership South Africa CEO Busi Mavuso said she was frustrated with the solutions proposed by the African...
View ArticleSugarcane farmers receive R60m in premium price payments
Sugarcane farmers received about R60-million worth of premium price payments on January 31 as agreed by the Small-Scale Grower Masterplan Task Team in accordance with the process laid out in the South...
View ArticlePrivate tertiary education campus builds high-tech engineering laboratories
Private higher education campus IIE MSA - an educational brand of the Independent Institute of Education - has built three new high-tech engineering laboratories fitted with the latest digital...
View ArticleCCMA again upholds dismissal of employee for refusing vaccination
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) has issued its second decision relating to mandatory vaccination policies in the workplace and upheld the employer's decision to...
View ArticleWorkplace mandatory vaccination policy must be based on risk assessment - CDH
Organisations that implement a mandatory Covid-19 vaccination policy must do so on the basis of a risks assessment, and the risk assessment must consider the operational requirements of the workplace...
View ArticleTech group contributes R15m to African startups over two years
Over the last two years, global telecommunications group Telecel’s Africa Startup Initiative Programme (Asip), which is powered by startup accelerator Startupbootcamp Afritech, has contributed more...
View ArticleBLSA pleads for workplace restrictions to be eased
South Africa is becoming an outlier in workplace regulations, with businesses still being required to maintain an array of Covid-19 workplace regulations. These include keeping an attendance register...
View ArticleNxesi announces 2022 national minimum wage increases
Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has announced that the national minimum wage (NMW) for each ordinary hour worked has been increased from R21.69 to R23.19, with effect from March 1. As in...
View ArticleNAACAM awards manufacturing-focused MBA Scholarship
The National Association of Automotive Component and Allied Manufacturers (NAACAM) has awarded its manufacturing-focused 2022 Masters of Business Administration (MBA) scholarship at the Gordon...
View ArticleSouth Africa takes Huawei's local unit to court over employment rule breaches
South Africa's labour department said it had filed court papers against telecom equipment group Huawei Technologies' local business over alleged employment rule breaches. China's Huawei employed...
View ArticlePrivate sector’s role in job creation comes under post-SoNA spotlight
The respective roles of the public and the private sectors in creating jobs came under the spotlight again on Monday as political leaders responded to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s most recent State of...
View ArticleUnemployment to remain high as economic growth stagnates
South Africa’s yearly economic growth will “moderate” to less that 2% for the foreseeable future, which is insufficient to curb rising unemployment, given the country’s population growth rate,...
View ArticleManufacturer hosts training day for SMMEs
Local cement and construction materials manufacturer AfriSam hosted 60 small, medium-sized and microenterprises (SMMEs) from different communities surrounding its Jukskei and Eikenhof quarries, both in...
View ArticleFree interactive virtual world introduces children to STEM world and careers
Animated, interactive visualisation of technologies, infrastructure and activities the STEMulator aims to expose children to many of the activities and infrastructure that constitute the human world...
View ArticlePrivate sector seen as key to catalysing much-needed infrastructure revival
A focus on labour-intensive practices, increased partnership between the public and private sectors and rechannelled funding methods for infrastructure roll-out in South Africa are required to help...
View ArticleSHRA encouraged by social housing progress
The Social Housing Regulatory Authority (SHRA) has said it is “encouraged” by government’s commitment to the development of social housing across South Africa, following Finance Minister Enoch...
View Article